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8%OFFLawrence Ferlinghetti - A Far Rockaway of the Heart: Poems - 9780811213981 - V9780811213981
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A Far Rockaway of the Heart: Poems

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Description for A Far Rockaway of the Heart: Poems Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
A sequence of one hundred and one poems with recurrent themes, it includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as confrontations with major figures in the avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation. This edition now includes eighteen new poems from Ferlinghetti's "Pictures of the Gone World" which he publishes under his City Lights imprint. A self-styled "stand-up tragedian," Ferlinghetti has been called "the foremost chronicler of our times." If A Coney Island of the Mind was a generations vibrant eye-opener, A Far Rockaway of the Heart is a wake-up call for a new ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811213981
SKU
V9780811213981
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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 received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the ... Read more

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