Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081122712X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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. The poet, publisher, and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, has received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation. He is the subject of Christopher Felver’s new film documentary, Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder.Nancy Peters is an American writer as well as the former editor-in-chie
Through this tight lens, it is now possible to see Ferlinghettia brilliant and prolific poetin a richer, broader, and more complex way. It’s exciting to revisit in one slender volume so much of the splendid, playful, and trenchant work of one of America’s greatest and most popular poets.. From his very first landmark booksPictures of the Gone World (City Lights, 1955) and A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions, 1958)to new work, Ferlinghetti’s Greatest Poems displays every stage of this multifaceted writer’s long and
“A brave man and a brave poet.” - Bob Dylan“Ferlinghetti is a national treasure, and his voice has become part of our collective conscience. Ferlinghetti is the foremost chronicler of our times, continually in the front lines.” - Library Journal“Lawrence gets you laughing, then hits you with the truth.” - Francis Ford Coppola“Combining a Whitmanesque celebration of the earthy with a nod to the surrealist tradition, Ferlinghetti blasted his way into public consciousness with the 1958 publication of A Coney Island of the Mind, marking him as one of the Beat poets, though his more refined poetic sensibility showed just how diff