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A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: FICTION
Ferlinghetti is a national treasure, and his voice has become part of our collective conscience. Some of his most famous poems from this collection such as "I Am Waiting" and "Junkman's Obbligato" were created for jazz accompaniment. Written in the conservative post-war 1950s, his poems still resonate, ...Show more
A Coney Island of the Mind Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: Poetry
The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's - as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul.
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology: 60th Anniversary Edition by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets
"Printer's ink is the greatest explosive."--Lawrence FerlinghettiLawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was "Pictures of the Gone World"--the only book of his own poems th ...Show more
Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Nancy Peters (Editor)
Category: Poetry & Plays
At last, just in time for his 99th birthday, a powerful overview of one of America's most beloved poets: New Directions is proud to present a swift, terrific chronological selection of Ferlinghetti's poems, spanning more than six decades of work and presenting one of modern poetry's greatest achievement ...Show more
Her by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: Fiction
Being thus very far from the kind of novels produced by Ferlinghetti's immediate contemporaries (whether Beat or academic) this book has met with little but bafflement among American critics. With well over 50,000 now in printHer nevertheless continues to make its own way.
Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: Fiction
Little Boy was quite lost. He had no idea who he was or where he had come from . Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-horde pent-up within him. From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Par ...Show more
Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: Poetry & Plays
From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament -- part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-inflected torrent of language and feeling, and all magical. In this unapologetically unclassifiable work Law ...Show more
Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: Fiction
'A brave man and a brave poet.' Bob Dylan 'Utterly extraordinary.' Guardian 'A torrent of textual splendor.' Los Angeles Times From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Parisian cafes, to befriending America's ...Show more
Love in the Days of Rage by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Category: Fiction
This poetic novel about love in a time of revolution and change, from one of the most influential literary figures of modern times, is a work of lyricism, commitment, painting, politics, passion and intellect. Set in Paris in May of 1968, revolution and love are in the air as the love between a young Am ...Show more
Roman Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Translator)
Category: Education | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet--the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after his ho ...Show more
Writing Across the Landscape - Travel Journals 1960-2010 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Giada Diano (Editor); Matthew Gleeson (Editor)
Category: Biography
This long-awaited volume provides a panoramic portrait of art and life across the twentieth century, from Mexico to Morocco, Paris to Rome, and beyond. Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, ...Show more
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