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Print Email this page		What Is Poetry A Non-Lecture Lawrence Ferlinghetti Pamphlet - $50.00 Description Detailed info Lawrence Ferlinghetti 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 since his student days in Paris where he frequented the Academie Julien and where he did his first oil painting. Blasts Cries Laughter Lawrence Ferlinghetti 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. Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Blasts contains blasts, blessings, and curses in the vortex of today, taking its cues from the original little magazine, Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis with Ezra Pound... Time of Useful Consciousness Lawrence Ferlinghetti 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. New Directions is proud to announce a riveting and galvanizing new book by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. At Sea A Poem for Pablo Neruda Lawrence Ferlinghetti EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE AT CITY LIGHTS! Exquisite handmade letterpress edition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's new poem, "At Sea". Poetry As Insurgent Art Lawrence Ferlinghetti After a lifetime, this (r)evolutionary little book is still a work-in-progress, the poet's ars poetica, to which at 88 he is constantly adding. From the groundbreaking (and bestselling) A Coney Island of the Mind in 1958 to the "personal epic" of... Americus, Book I Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. epic, Americus. Describing Americus as "part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epic—a descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true... Pictures of the Gone World CD & Bonus DVD Lawrence Ferlinghetti This two-disc set features Ferlinghetti meditating on a time gone by in his past. His paper-thin wispy voice further reinforces the antiquity of the content, but accompanies him musically with great subtlety and sensitivity. Life Studies, Life Stories Drawings Lawrence Ferlinghetti 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... How to Paint Sunlight Lyric Poems & Others (1997-2000) Lawrence Ferlinghetti This collection of recent poems is graced with a short introduction by the poet in which he says, "All I ever wanted to do was to paint light on the walls of life." For more than fifty years Ferlinghetti has been doing just that—illuminating both... A Far Rockaway of the Heart Lawrence Ferlinghetti A Far Rockaway of the Heart is Ferlinghetti's sequel to A Coney Island of the Mind, written forty years afterwards in what the author has called "a poetry seizure" that lasted more than a year. A sequence of one hundred and one poems with... The Street's Kiss Lawrence Ferlinghetti Boise: Limberlost Press, (1998) 8vo, 13 pages. One of 750 copies printed by letterpress on fine paper. Signed by Ferlinghetti on the title page. As new in printed wrappers. Pictures of the Gone World Pocket Poets Number 1 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The... These Are My Rivers New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Four decades of poetry and more than fifty pages of new work and play. Ascending Over Ohio Lawrence Ferlinghetti Warren, OH: Fantome Press, [1989]. Pamphlet. First edition. Signed by Ferlinghetti on cover envelope. Fine in the publisher's printed envelope. Limited copies available. Wild Dreams of a New Beginning Lawrence Ferlinghetti Written in the 1970s, this volume combines two earlier books: Who Are We Now? and Landscapes of Living & Dying. European Poems and Transitions Over All the Obscene Boundaries Lawrence Ferlinghetti From France to Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and finally toward America. An Elegy To Dispel Gloom [After the Assassinations of Mayor George Moscone of San Francisco and City Supervisor Harvey Milk November 27, 1978] Lawrence Ferlinghetti Signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 1978. Folded broadside, one of only 50 copies of the second printing (marked 25 cents) after a first printing of 50 copies (marked 15 cents). Photocopies made by Ferlinghetti at the Postal Instant Press in San Francisco. Minor toning to the edges, else a fine copy of this very scarce item. Love is No Stone on the Moon Lawrence Ferlinghetti First Edition. Pub. 1971 by Arif Press, Berkeley. Very good condition. Sextodecimo [5" by 7.5"]. Stapled wraps. A World Awash with Fascism & Fear Lawrence Ferlinghetti Signed. Folds out to 14" x 22" poster.Signed. Cranium Press,, [San Francisco]:, 1971. First edition, pamphlet issue (folded). Broadside poem; single sheet, printed on white stock paper, measuring 15 by 22 inches, folded twice to make a pamphlet (as issued). A fine copy. The Secret Meaning of Things Lawrence Ferlinghetti Six long poems including "Assassination Raga" -- on the death of the Kennedys. A Coney Island of the Mind Poems Lawrence Ferlinghetti The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's Into the Night Life. In it, Ferlinghetti expresses the way he felt during a short period in the 1950s. Starting from San Francisco Lawrence Ferlinghetti The poet's early travels in North America, South America, and Europe. Includes some psychedelia. Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow Lawrence Ferlinghetti Broadside, Folded into an 8vo pamphlet. VERY GOOD+ on white paper, has some light toning around the edges. Single sheet, broadside poem. Her Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A surreal semiautobiographical blackbook record of a vagabond period in my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh madonnas with spiritual ones." – Lawrence Ferlinghetti Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower Lawrence Ferlinghetti Signed pamphlet by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. First read at the Poets' Follies in San Francisco on Sunday May 11, 1958. San Francisco Poems San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 1 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Here are all of Ferlinghetti's poems set in the city he has lived in for over half a century. He brings alive, with wit and lyricism, scenes of city life: a Giants baseball game, the Green Street Marching Mortuary Band, bohemian North Beach, Golden... Translation: Roman Poems Pocket Poets Number 41 Pier Paolo Pasolini 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... Paroles Pocket Poets Number 9 Jacques Prevert Selected Poems In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prevert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the Underground... Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology 60th Anniversary Edition Lawrence Ferlinghetti Forthcoming! A comprehensive selection from Ferlinghetti's famed City Lights Pocket Poets Series, published on the 60th anniversary of its founding. The Beat Generation in San Francisco A Literary Tour Bill Morgan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti 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 &... City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology Lawrence Ferlinghetti "This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history. From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "Even though some say that... Ends and Beginnings City Lights Review No. 6 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Robert Anbian, Amiri Baraka, Alberto Blanco, William S. Burroughs, Andrei Codrescu, Susan Etlinger, Dario Fo, Barry Gifford, J.T. Gillett, Allen Ginsberg, Howard Hart, Elaine Katzenberger, Phillip M. Klasky, Steve Kowit, James Laughlin, D.H. Lawrence... On the Barricades: Journal for the Protection of All Beings #2 Collector's Edition Lawrence Ferlinghetti No 2 Journal for the Protection Of All Beings 1968, City Lights Books 1968 Bastille Day, 1968. Soft cover. Good condition with slight toning around the edges. First Edition. Extremely scarce photos. First issue of this Journal was 1961 No. 1 this is No 2 1968 a first edition. Cartoons photos by Caron. Herbert Marcuse on back of cover. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Howl on Trial The Battle for Free Expression Bill Morgan, Nancy J. Peters The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence, documents and photographs. The Essential Neruda Selected Poems Pablo Neruda This collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's... Notes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti The First Third Neal Cassady Immortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude. A treasured friend and traveling...