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San Francisco Poems

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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San Francisco Poems

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poems about the City by the Bay by its first official Poet Laureate.

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100

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City Lights Books

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1931404011

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9781931404013

Little Boy

A Novel

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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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.

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194

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Anchor

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0525565957

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9780525565956

A Far Rockaway of the Heart

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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A Far Rockaway of the Heart

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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.

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164

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New Directions Publishing

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0811213986

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9780811213981

Her

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Her

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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.

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164

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New Directions Publishing

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0811200426

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9780811200424

The Secret Meaning of Things

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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The Secret Meaning of Things

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The Secret Meaning of Things is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's fourth book of poems.

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0811200450

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9780811200455

Routines

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Routines

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Routines, first published by New Directions in 1964 and going through four printings, is now reissued with the addition of three more of Ferlinghetti's very short experimental plays

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New Directions Publishing

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0811214788

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9780811214780

Love in the Days of Rage

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Love in the Days of Rage

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“The more I make love, the more I want revolution; the more I make revolution, the more I want to make love.†? In Paris, in May of 1968, revolution, and love are very much in the air. The barricades are going up, the students of the Sorbonne are taking to streets alive with the graffiti of revolt, and the Odeon is ablaze with speechmaking. For Annie, a young American painter, and Julian, her Portuguese lover, a banker and anarchist, the events of that Paris spring form the backdrop against which their love affair is played. Annie sees the world through an artist's eyes; she is reckless in her passions, wanting and needing love with other people. There is none of this fanciful nonsense for Julian, an anarchist disdainful of the entire human race, who thinks even the enraged students storming the streets of Paris with their posters proclaiming “open the windows of your heart†? and “revolution is the ecstasy of history†? to be hopelessly naïve and sheeplike. Ferlinghetti charts the progress of love unfolding against those heady and momentous days when the pampered children of the bourgeoisie tried to find common cause with workers who despised them, “when Julian and Annie were in the heat of their love and reason.†?

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Abrams

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1468307924

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9781468307924

I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career

The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti,Allen Ginsberg

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I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career

The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti,Allen Ginsberg

One of the longest relationships between a publisher and a writer, documented in an intimate correspondence spanning their respective careers.

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298

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City Lights Books

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0872866785

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9780872866782

A Coney Island of the Mind

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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A Coney Island of the Mind

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A collection of poetic works by the 2005 National Book Award Literarian Medal recipient features pieces that reflect the conservative post-war period of the 1950s.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811217477

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9780811217477

European Poems & Transitions

Over All the Obscene Boundaries

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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European Poems & Transitions

Over All the Obscene Boundaries

By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

These poems on European themes by the author of Her (his Paris novel) and the enduring A Coney Island of the Mind were mostly written during the last seven years and, in the poet's words, are "transformations and transitions looking westward to America and beyond." Flowing from France to Italy to the Netherlands, on to Germany, back to France, and finally toward America, they follow Ferlinghetti's own recent journeying. The poems progress geographically and chronologically with a cohesive development of ideas and themes. In part he plays off T. S. Eliot's "summarizing the past by theft and allusion" but captures the present as well in fleeting incidents of daily experience, and, in his powerful concluding poem "History of the World: A TV Docu-drama," envisions a possible nuclear future. It is a view of our time and of where we are in it, seen by an eagle eye, told in Ferlinghetti's inimitable everyman's voice.

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134

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New Directions Publishing

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0811210847

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9780811210843

Book's by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

San Francisco Poems

San Francisco Poems

Little Boy

Little Boy

A Far Rockaway of the Heart

A Far Rockaway of the Heart

Her

Her

The Secret Meaning of Things

The Secret Meaning of Things

Routines

Routines

Love in the Days of Rage

Love in the Days of Rage

I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career

I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career

A Coney Island of the Mind

A Coney Island of the Mind

European Poems & Transitions

European Poems & Transitions

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