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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology 60th Anniversary Edition
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology 60th Anniversary Edition
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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 and within a year he had brought out two more volumes translations by Kenneth Rexroth and then poems by Kenneth Patchen. But it was the success and scandal of Number Four Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1956) that put City Lights on the map positioning the Pocket Poets Series at the forefront of the literary counterculture. A landmark sixtieth retrospective celebrating 60 years of publishing and cultural history this edition provides an invaluable distillation of the energetic iconoclastic and still fresh body of work represented in the ongoing series. Ferlinghetti has selected a handful of poems from each of the sixty volumes including the work of Ginsberg Kerouac Corso Pasolini Voznesensky Pr vert Mayakovsky Cort zar O Hara Ponsot Levertov di Prima Duncan Lamantia Lowry and more all of the Pocket Poets Series innovative influential and often ground - breaking American and international poets.
Title: City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology 60th Anniversary Edition
Brand: City Lights Books
Barcode: 9780872866799
Pages: 306 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 6/30/2015
Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series
Category: Poetry Anthologies (Various Poets)
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 and within a year he had brought out two more volumes translations by Kenneth Rexroth and then poems by Kenneth Patchen. But it was the success and scandal of Number Four Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1956) that put City Lights on the map positioning the Pocket Poets Series at the forefront of the literary counterculture. A landmark sixtieth retrospective celebrating 60 years of publishing and cultural history this edition provides an invaluable distillation of the energetic iconoclastic and still fresh body of work represented in the ongoing series. Ferlinghetti has selected a handful of poems from each of the sixty volumes including the work of Ginsberg Kerouac Corso Pasolini Voznesensky Pr vert Mayakovsky Cort zar O Hara Ponsot Levertov di Prima Duncan Lamantia Lowry and more all of the Pocket Poets Series innovative influential and often ground - breaking American and international poets.
Title: City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology 60th Anniversary Edition
Brand: City Lights Books
Barcode: 9780872866799
Pages: 306 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 6/30/2015
Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series
Category: Poetry Anthologies (Various Poets)