Download or read book Ferlinghetti s Greatest Poems written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, a compact, powerful overview of one of America's most beloved and radical poets--spanning more than six decades of work

Download or read book A Coney Island of the Mind written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1958 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.

Download or read book San Francisco Poems written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems about the City by the Bay by its first official Poet Laureate.

Download or read book These are My Rivers written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferlinghetti has been telling the truth in poems for more than four decades, and every indication is that he will continue to be heard when all the pretenders have turned to witless stone. Certainly the more than 50 pages of new work included here with his own selections of earlier work continue to maintain the faith. Published by New Directions, 80 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Little Boy written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. "A volcanic explosion of personal memories, political rants, social commentary, environmental jeremiads and cultural analysis all tangled together in one breathless sentence that would make James Joyce proud. . ." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post In this unapologetically unclassifiable work Lawrence Ferlinghetti lets loose an exhilarating rush of language to craft what might be termed a closing statement about his highly significant and productive 99 years on this planet. The "Little Boy" of the title is Ferlinghetti himself as a child, shuffled from his overburdened mother to his French aunt to foster childhood with a rich Bronxville family. Service in World War Two (including the D-Day landing), graduate work, and a scholar gypsy's vagabond life in Paris followed. These biographical reminiscences are interweaved with Allen Ginsberg-esque high energy bursts of raw emotion, rumination, reflection, reminiscence and prognostication on what we may face as a species on Planet Earth in the future. Little Boy is a magical font of literary lore with allusions galore, a final repository of hard-earned and durable wisdom, a compositional high wire act without a net (or all that much punctuation) and just a gas and an inspiration to read.

Download or read book A Far Rockaway of the Heart written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the Mind", this sequence of 100 poems with recurrent themes 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.

Download or read book Collected Poems written by Ron Padgett and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years of poems and wry insight celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth century American poetry.

Download or read book Time of Useful Consciousness written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book since Poetry as Insurgent Art, a new call to action and a vivid picture of civilization moving towards its brink.

Download or read book The Secret Meaning of Things written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Meaning of Things is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's fourth book of poems.

Download or read book Her written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1960 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A surreal semi-autobiographical blackbook record of a semi-mad period of my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh madonnas with spiritual ones." This is how the author describes this extraordinary expatriate novel.

Download or read book What is Poetry written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Poetry? is the closest he has come to formulating an ars poetica. It is an on-going project which he is constantly revising and expanding. The present volume is the latest stage along the road.-Creative Arts Book Company.

Download or read book I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the longest relationships between a publisher and a writer, documented in an intimate correspondence spanning their respective careers.

Download or read book Who are We Now written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wild Dreams of a New Beginning written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two acclaimed poetry volumes, Who Are We Now? (1976) and Landscapes of Livingand Dying (1979), are brought together.

Download or read book Silverchest written by Carl Phillips and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After / the afterlife, there's an afterlife." In Silverchest, his twelfth book, Carl Phillips considers how our fears and excesses, the damage we cause both to others and to ourselves, intentional and not, can lead not only to a kind of wisdom but also to renewal, maybe even joy, if we're willing to commit fully to a life in which "I love you / means what, exactly?" In poems shot through with his signature mix of eros, restless energy, and moral scrutiny, Phillips argues for the particular courage it takes to look at the self squarely—not with judgment but with understanding—and extend that self more honestly toward others. It's a risk, there's a lot to lose, but if it's true that "we'll drown anyway—why not / in color?"

Download or read book Greatest Poems written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by Edizioni Mondadori. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questo libro, la più recente e aggiornata antologia di un autore che è una vera e propria icona mondiale della poesia dal secondo Novecento a oggi, conferma intatta la sua formidabile vitalità intellettuale, la sua piena apertura di fronte al mondo, e insieme la capacità davvero unica di cogliere e valorizzare poeticamente gli elementi più disparati del reale e offrirceli sulla pagina. Come scrive Leopoldo Carra, «la poesia di Lawrence Ferlinghetti conquista il lettore grazie a molte seduzioni, una delle quali risiede nell'apparente semplicità di certi versi, nella loro disponibilità giocosa, nel loro contatto vivo e ininterrotto con i sentimenti della gente comune». Ma poi precisa, opportunamente, che «il miracolo di questa poesia è l'essere riuscita a pronunciare con la stessa scioltezza numerose allusioni a una complessa tradizione testuale, innanzitutto in lingua inglese». Ciò significa che il grande interprete della beat generation, il poeta che è anche editore - e tra l'altro di Urlo di Ginsberg -, ha innovato sulla consapevole base di un immenso patrimonio culturale, a partire dal quasi coetaneo Dylan Thomas, per comprendere Pound o Yeats, su su fino a Whitman, ma anche a tutta la grande poesia inglese dell'Ottocento. L'insieme è il variegatissimo messaggio (impegno civile, ambientalismo, descrizione del quotidiano, struggente meditazione sui genitori perduti) di un artista che concepisce il mondo, pur nella sofferenza che tutti coinvolge, come un «bellissimo posto / per nascere», un posto dove «il poeta come un acrobata / si arrampica sui versi».

Download or read book Blasts Cries Laughter written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Poetry Pamphlet. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, shorter collection by America's preeminent living poet and social activist, who is just as fiery and provocative as ever at 94 years old.