Pictures of the Gone World: 60th Anniversary Edition (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0872866904 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 48 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He launched City Lights Publishers that year with a five-hundred-copy letterpress edition of Pictures of the Gone World, Number One in the Pocket Poets Series. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author of A Coney Island of the Mind, he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet. A classic collection of early work, Pictures includes many of Ferlinghetti's most iconic poems. This limited edition sixtieth anniversary hardcover restores the book to its original selection, and is a must for collectors and fans.Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a poet, painter, and founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
He is the author of A Coney Island of the Mind, America's most popular book of poetry, and most recently, Time of Useful Consciousness. A prominent voice of the wide-open poetry movement that began in the 1950s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has written poetry, translation, fiction, theater, art criticism, film narration, and essays. Often concerned with politics and social issues, Ferlinghetti's poetry countered the literary elite's definition of art and the artist's role in the
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Word snap-shots of life OAKSHAMAN I am embarassed to say that I picked this book up on my last visit to City Lights (several years ago) but I never actually read it. Other than for a piece or two in an anthology, I had never read Ferlinghetti, period. Having enjoyed the hospitality of the upstairs poetry room, that seemed someho. refreshingly fresh and innocent and playful and insightful A Customer This has to be my favorite volume of poetry to date (yet I am still young and have much to read). I found it "refreshing" and "light" if you will, yet at the same timetaking on some real insight. My favorite poems in the volume include "Heaven"; which I take as almost a poetic criticism OF poetr. The best of the Beats Dominica I really enjoy Ferlinghetti's poetry. It's interesting, colorful, and evocative without resorting to tasteless sexual references . This little book is a classic. I hope it will always be in print.