Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1) Little boy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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),...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; NDP871
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A sequel to A Coney Island of the Mind (written forty years after the original in what the author has called "a poetry seizure" that lasted more than a year), A Far Rockaway of the Heart is a sequence of one hundred and one related poems with recurrent themes. The author also thinks of it as a kind of caustic critique of modern poetry, including confrontations with or parodies of major figures in the literary avant-garde before the arrival of the...
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 268
Publisher
Published for James Laughlin by New Directions
Pub. Date
[1968]
Language
English
Description
These poems show a progressive continuity and clarity of perception that apprehends both the hard reality and luminous irreality in everyday phenomena.
17) Tyrannus Nix
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 288
Publisher
[New Directions Pub. Corp.]
Pub. Date
[1969]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
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" in 2003, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has, in more than thirty books, been the poetic conscience of America. Now in "Poetry As Insurgent Art," he offers, in prose, his primer of what poetry...