Ferlinghetti's greatest poems
Title:
Ferlinghetti's greatest poems
Author:
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence author.
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Poems. Selections
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2017.
©2017
Physical Description:
144 pages ; 19 cm
Summary:
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.
General Note:
"A New Directions book."
Language:
English
Contents:
Pictures of the gone world (1955) -- A Coney Island of the mind (1958) -- Starting from San Francisco (1961) -- Open eye, open heart (1973) -- Who are we now? (1976) -- Northwest ecolog (1978) -- Landscapes of living & dying (1980) -- European poems & transitions (1984, 1986) -- These are my rivers (1993) -- A far rockaway of the heart (1998) -- How to paint sunlight (2001) -- Blasts cries laughter (2014) -- New and uncollected.
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780811227124
Format :
Book
