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."
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 w...
The Secret Meaning of Things has all the elements of his earlier poetry: lyrical intensity, wit, social concern, satirical bite, and above all a classical claritas. But it goes much further: there is a deepening of vision and a darker understanding of "our clay condition." The six long poems inThe Secret Meaning of Things show a progressive continuity and clarity of perception that apprehends both the hard reality and luminous irreality in everyday phenomena. In "Assassination Raga" on the death of Robert Kennedy the glass through which the poet sees darkly is the television...
The Secret Meaning of Things has all the elements of his earlier poetry: lyrical intensity, wit, social concern, satirical bite, and above al...
Starting From San Francisco, first published in 1961, was the third collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poetry. His Coney Island Of the Mind (1958), on its way to selling a million copies and one of the bestselling books of contemporary American poetry, has been translated into many different foreign languages.
Starting From San Francisco, first published in 1961, was the third collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poetry. His Coney Island Of the Mind (1958),...
A sequence of one hundred and one poems with recurrent themes, it includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as confrontations with major figures in the avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation. This edition now includes eighteen new poems from Ferlinghetti's "Pictures of the Gone World" which he publishes under his City Lights imprint. A self-styled "stand-up tragedian," Ferlinghetti has been called "the foremost chronicler of our times." If A Coney Island of the Mind was a generations vibrant eye-opener, A Far Rockaway of the Heart is a...
A sequence of one hundred and one poems with recurrent themes, it includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as c...
In his introduction to this collection of poems, Lawrence Ferlinghetti says All I have ever wanted to do was to paint light on the walls of life, and for 50 years he has been doing just that, illuminating both the everyday and the unusual in a way which is universally accessible.
In his introduction to this collection of poems, Lawrence Ferlinghetti says All I have ever wanted to do was to paint light on the walls of life, and ...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. epic, "Americus," Describing "Americus" as "part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epic--a descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true fiction, lyric and political," Ferlinghetti combines "universal texts, snatches of song, words or phrases, murmuring of love or hate, from Lotte Lenya to the latest soul singer, sayings and shibboleths from Yogi Berra to the National Anthem, the Gettysburg Address or the Ginsberg Address, that haunt our nocturnal imagination." This book is...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. epic, "Americus," Describing "Americus" as "part do...
In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti s A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one best-selling volume of poetry by any living American poet. Now, New Directions is proud to publish his manifesto in a paperback edition."
In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publishe...
Pier Paolo Pasolini Francesca Valente Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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 homosexuality led the Italian Communist Party to expel him on charges of -moral and political unworthiness, - Pasolini fled to Rome. This selection of poems from his early impoverished days on the outskirts of Rome to his last (with a backward longing glance at his native Friuli) is at the...
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 th...
Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.
It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Books, author of A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of the Gone World, among numerous other books, has been drawing from life since his student days...
Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.
