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GASOLINE AND THE VESTAL LADY ON BRATTLE by CORSO GREGORY
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series.Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso's individual (therefor ...Show more
Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams (Introduction by)
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series Book 4
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. ...Show more
Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition by Frank O'Hara
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry. Edited by the poet in collaboration wit ...Show more
Mind Breaths - Poems, 1972-1977 by Allen Ginsberg
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Meditations, rhapsodies, elegies, confessions, and mindful chronicle writings filling inward and outward space thru mid-Seventies decade.Mind Breaths: Australian songsticks measure oldest known poetics, broken-leg meditations march thru Six Worlds singing crazy Wisdom's hopeless suffering, the First Nob ...Show more
Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series
The original manuscript of this book, written between 1954 and 1965, has been in the safekeeping of City Lights all the years since Kerouac's death in 1969. Reaching beyond the scope of his Mexico City Blues, here are pomes about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid-fifties road poems, hymns ...Show more
Revolutionary Letters: Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition - Pocket Poets Series No. 27 by Diane di Prima
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago. During the tumult of 1968, Beat poet Diane di Prima began wr ...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
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