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These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Description for These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993
Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 202 x 21. Weight in Grams: 314.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman’s voice, including more than fifty pages of new work. The tone has deepened over the years, and he may now be seen as a true maestro in his field. Behind the irresistible air of immediacy and spontaneity lies much erudition and an antic imagination intent on subverting "the dominant paradigm." From his earliest books, including his landmark Coney Island of the Mind, Ferlinghetti has written poetry "in ways that those who see poetry as the province of the ... Read more
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman’s voice, including more than fifty pages of new work. The tone has deepened over the years, and he may now be seen as a true maestro in his field. Behind the irresistible air of immediacy and spontaneity lies much erudition and an antic imagination intent on subverting "the dominant paradigm." From his earliest books, including his landmark Coney Island of the Mind, Ferlinghetti has written poetry "in ways that those who see poetry as the province of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811212731
SKU
V9780811212731
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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
Reviews for These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993
"...the foremost chronicler of our time."
Library Journal "Tenderly lyrical, outrageously irreverent, yet always accessible."
Fort Worth Star Telegram
Library Journal "Tenderly lyrical, outrageously irreverent, yet always accessible."
Fort Worth Star Telegram