Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1) Little boy
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A novelistic memoir by famed poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
What is Poetry? is a brilliant, soulful, and life-affirming collection of aphorisms in free verse by one of our most important contemporary poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Also an acclaimed activist, anarchist philosopher, and editor, he is one of the founders of City Lights, the legendary bookstore and publishing house. In this hardcover limited edition, Ferlinghetti (who began writing the aphorisms in 1950) shares brief observations that capture the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti cofounded City Lights, the first paperback bookstore in the United States, a Mecca for millions. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry by any living American poet. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, Ferlinghetti has recieved the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation. -- from back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1969, Allen Ginsberg wrote to his friend, fellow poet, and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Alas, telephone destroys letters!" Fortunately, however, by then the two had already exchanged a treasure trove of personal correspondence, and more than any other documents, their letters- intimate, opinionated, and action-packed- reveal the true nature of their lifelong friendship and creative relationship. Collected here for the first time, they offer...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume NDP220
Pub. Date
1967]
Edition
[Enlarged edition.
Language
English
Series
Language
English
Description
""Printer's ink is the greater explosive."-Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of the Gone World-the only book of his own poems that Ferlinghetti would ever publish at City Lights. Within a year, he had brought out two more volumes, translations by Kenneth Rexroth and then poems...
20) The last waltz
Language
English
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Description
The Band, one of rock's superstar groups, decided to call it quits after sixteen grueling years on the road. The group held this farewell concert on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, at San Francisco's Winterland, the site of their first performance. The performance is interspersed with interview footage.
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