Poesi är en omstörtande verksamhet, svarade den amerikanske författaren Lawrence Ferlinghetti på frågan om vad poesi i grunden är. Ferlinghetti, grundare av bokhandeln och förlaget City Lights i San Francisco och vid 96 års ålder fortfarande fullt v…
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 &…
From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Parisian cafes, to befriending America's greatest counter-cultural writers, Little Boy has seen it all.This is…
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…
The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Isla…
New Directions is proud to announce a riveting and galvanizing new book by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. At ninety-three, he shows more power than most any other poet at work today. Ferlinghetti describes his new book, Time of Useful Consciousness, as a fr…
From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament -- part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-inflected torrent of language and feeling, and all ma…
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 95 år gammel, er stadig aktiv som poet, forlegger, bokhandler, kritisk stemme på venstresiden i USA. I Norge lanserte Kate Næss ham på 1960-tallet, og Jón Sveinbjørn Jónsson gjorde et utvalg for tyve år siden. Linda Klakken sk…
Lawrence Ferlinghetti-legendary poet and best-selling author-collects here his travel journals. Traversing the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, Writing Across the Landscape positions Ferlinghetti as a major voice whose personal w…
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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…
Six long poems in which Ferlinghetti reflects on American events of the late sixties and a winter journey across Russia
Beautiful hardcover edition of the beloved Ferlinghetti collection restored to the original version as it was originally conceived 60th anniversary of book's publication Ferlinghetti's travel journals, Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals (…
"Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti will forever be linked as the respective writer and publisher of Howl, and this irresistible collection of their correspondence shows the depth of their friendship and working relationship ... an impressive…
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 pl…
Gathers poems from each period of the poet's career, including poems dealing with fame, memory, politics, love, travel, and poetry
"Printer's ink is the greater explosive." Lawrence FerlinghettiLawrence 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 o…
Told in three chapters, Either Limits or Contradictions, captures the feelings of self-discovery, enjoyment, and death. Nick Meyer takes the viewer on the ebb and flow that makes up life. His visual narratives are an attempt to examine and confront…
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…
'This isn't a book: it's a reckoning ... Utterly extraordinary.' GuardianLittle Boy was quite lost. He had no idea who he was or where he had come from . Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-horde pent-up within him.From growing…
A surrealistic novel depicting an artist's search for the ideal
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 in 1914-15 that helped create the modernist movement i…
