Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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"The more I make love, the more I want revolution; the more I make revolution, the more I want to make love.†? In Paris, in May of 1968, revolution, and love are very much in the air. The barricades are going up, the students of the Sorbonne are taking to streets alive with the graffiti of revolt, and the Odeon is ablaze with speechmaking. For Annie, a young American painter, and Julian, her Portuguese lover, a banker and anarchist, the events of...
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What is Poetry? is a brilliant, soulful, and life-affirming collection of aphorisms in free verse by one of our most important contemporary poets, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Also an acclaimed activist, anarchist philosopher, and editor, he is one of the founders of City Lights, the legendary bookstore and publishing house. In this hardcover limited edition, Ferlinghetti (who began writing the aphorisms in 1950) shares brief observations that capture the...
5) Little boy
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 20 cm
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"A novelistic memoir by famed poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti"--
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Beginning with Ferlinghetti's account of serving as a commanding officer on a Navy sub-chaser during D-Day, Writing Across the Landscape dramatically traverses the latter half of the twentieth century. For those only familiar with his poetry, these pages present a Lawrence Ferlinghetti never before encountered, an elegant prose stylist and tireless political activist who was warning against the pernicious sins of our ever-expansive corporate culture...
Series
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 306 pages ; 17 cm.
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""Printer's ink is the greatest 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-the only book of his own poems that Ferlinghetti would ever publish at City Lights. Within a year, he had brought out two more volumes, translations by Kenneth Rexroth and then poems...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kerouac's life is examined through fascinating rare documentary footage and revealing interviews with some of Kerouac's most famous contemporaries and friends. Beginning with his Catholic boyhood, through his development as one of the most important modern American authors, to his self-destructive demise at the age of 49, 'Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats' is both an accurately detailed documentary and a moving drama.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Investigates the personal history and creative process of Jack Kerouac, father of the Beat Generation, author of "On the road", and a pivotal figure of the fifties countercultural revolution. Shows what happened when fame and notoriety were thrust upon an essentially reticent man.