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...
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.
Being thus very far from the kind of novels produced by Ferlinghetti's immediate contemporaries (whether Beat or academic) this book has met with litt...
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),...
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 ...
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...
A blow-by-blow unearthing of the places where the Beat writers first came to full bloom: the flat where Ginsberg wrote -Howl;- Gary Snyder's zen cottage in Berkeley; the ghostly railroad yards where Kerouac and -Cassady toiled; the pads where Jack & Neal & Carolyn lived; Ferlinghetti's favorite haunts. This meticulous guide also brings to light never-before-heard stories about Corso, Bob Kaufman, DiPrima, Kyger, Lamantia and other West Coast Beats. A entertaining read as well as a practical walking (and driving) tour that covers the entire Bay Area. With an introduction by Lawrence...
A blow-by-blow unearthing of the places where the Beat writers first came to full bloom: the flat where Ginsberg wrote -Howl;- Gary Snyder's zen co...
Close to 100 figurative drawings in black and white, and in color, mostly nudes in love or strife, some -disastered by life, - some with incisive or caustic words integrated in the images. This is a retrospective of Ferlinghetti's graphic work and play, ranging from his early drawings made in Paris ateliers, to yesterday's sessions sketching models in his San Francisco studio.
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...
Close to 100 figurative drawings in black and white, and in color, mostly nudes in love or strife, some -disastered by life, - some with incisive o...