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Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Description for Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013
Hardback. Motorcycle Diaries for a new generation, this long-awaited volume provides a panoramic portrait of art and life across the twentieth century. Editor(s): Diano, Giada; Gleeson, Matthew. Num Pages: 496 pages, 50 drawings, 30 facsimile pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; 3JM; BJ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 244 x 43. Weight in Grams: 982.
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 writings are now added to the fabric of twentieth-century literary history. The volume gives glimpses of figures like William Burroughs in London, Ezra Pound in Italy and Fidel Castro at the dawn of the Revolution. Readers will journey to Mexico, Morocco, Paris and Rome, as well as to post-Stalinist Russia on a harrowing journey on the Trans-Siberian Express. Embedded with new poems and Ferlinghetti's pyrotechnic prose, Writing ... Read more
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 writings are now added to the fabric of twentieth-century literary history. The volume gives glimpses of figures like William Burroughs in London, Ezra Pound in Italy and Fidel Castro at the dawn of the Revolution. Readers will journey to Mexico, Morocco, Paris and Rome, as well as to post-Stalinist Russia on a harrowing journey on the Trans-Siberian Express. Embedded with new poems and Ferlinghetti's pyrotechnic prose, Writing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781631490019
SKU
V9781631490019
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About Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Born in Bronxville, New York, in 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the cofounder of San Francisco's hallowed City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. He lives in San Francisco. Giada Diano is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's translator and biographer in Italy. Her biography is published by Feltrinelli (Milan). Matthew Gleeson is a writer and ... Read more
Reviews for Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013
Ferlinghetti move[s] through the decades...in the grip of managed melancholy; a detached and watchful sympathy for the world and its follies.
Iain Sinclair - London Review of Books
Iain Sinclair - London Review of Books