City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology

Author : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780872866799

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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Pdf

"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 by Kenneth Patchen. But it was the success and scandal of number four, Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1956), that put City Lights on the map, positioning the Pocket Poets Series at the forefront of the literary counterculture. A landmark sixtieth anniversary retrospective, this edition is a must-have collection, an invaluable distillation of the energetic, iconoclastic, and still fresh body of work represented in the ongoing series. Ferlinghetti has selected three poems from each of the sixty volumes, including the work of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Voznesensky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Julio Cortázar, Frank O'Hara, Marie Ponsot, Denise Levertov, Diane di Prima, Robert Duncan, Phillip Lamantia, Malcolm Lowry, and many more of the Pocket Poets Series innovative, influential, and often groundbreaking American and international poets. Ferlinghetti provides a fresh introduction that looks back at the inspiration for the series, why certain poets were included, and who were the ones that got away. His behind-the-scenes, personal anecdotes provide priceless insights that shed new light on his vision and his editorial practices at a time when the Pocket Poets Series was shaping the contours of poetry's avant-garde.

Author : Carmela Ciuraru
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780375413322

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Beat Poets by Carmela Ciuraru Pdf

This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century countercultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic zeal, and declaiming their verse with dramatic flourish in smoke-filled cafés, the Beats gave birth to a literature of previously unimaginable expressive range. The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this collection, which also features the improvisational verse of such Beat legends as Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, and Michael McClure and the work of such women writers as Diane DiPrima and Denise Levertov. LeRoi Jones’s plaintive “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” and Bob Kaufman’s stirring “Abomunist Manifesto” appear here alongside statements on poetics and the alternately incendiary and earnest correspondence of Beat Generation writers. Visceral and powerful, infused with an unmediated spiritual and social awareness, this is a rich and varied tribute and, in the populist spirit of the Beats, a vital addition to the libraries of readers everywhere.

Author : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0872863034

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Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Pdf

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...

Author : David Meltzer
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780872865167

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When I Was a Poet by David Meltzer Pdf

A milestone in City Lights history, David Meltzer's When I Was a Poet is number sixty of the famous Pocket Poets Series. The title work is an ambitious late masterpiece from a legendary poet at the height of his powers, a spiritual assessment of the meaning of a lifetime of writing poetry. Also included are reminiscences of California bohemian life, a series of mystical amulets, and profound meditations on love, loss, aging and death. Associated with the Beat Generation and late '60s psychedelia, musician, novelist and editor David Meltzer is one of America's foremost living poets. "Meltzer is a prolific poet of many modes and voices, quite a few of which are here, love poems, poems out of childhood, a series of "amulets," cryptic short wisdom poems, and much more. These are all tasty, often ironic and/or mysterious, pieces of Davidness to be savored . . . "--Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash

Author : Francisco Morán
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173025129464

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The Island of My Hunger by Francisco Morán Pdf

Poems by some of today's most interesting and talented Cuban poets.

Author : Elizabeth Schmidt
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015056167060

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Poems of New York by Elizabeth Schmidt Pdf

Presents a collection of poetry that captures the rich diversity of the city from such poets as Dorothy Parker, James Merrill, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde, and Wallace Stevens.

Author : Ralph T. Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040479367

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The City Lights Pocket Poets Series by Ralph T. Cook Pdf

Author : Jean Daive
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780872868120

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Under the Dome by Jean Daive Pdf

An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe’s greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth. "Daive's memoir sensitively conjures a portrait of a man tormented by both his mind and his medical treatment but who nonetheless remained a generous friend and a poet for whom writing was a matter of life and death."—The New Yorker "Jean Daive's memoir of his brief but intense spell as confidant and poetic confrère of Paul Celan offers us unique access to the mind and personality of one of the great poets of the dark twentieth century."—J.M. Coetzee Paul Celan (1920–1970) is considered one of Europe's greatest post-World-War II poets, known for his astonishing experiments in poetic form, expression, and address. Under the Dome is French poet Jean Daive's haunting memoir of his friendship with Celan, a precise yet elliptical account of their daily meetings, discussions, and walks through Paris, a routine that ended suddenly when Celan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Seine. Daive's grief at the loss of his friend finds expression in Under the Dome, where we are given an intimate insight into Celan's last years, at the height of his poetic powers, and as he approached the moment when he would succumb to the debilitating emotional pain of a Holocaust survivor. In Under the Dome, Jean Daive illuminates Celan's process of thinking about poetry, grappling with questions of where it comes from and what it does: invaluable insights about poetry's relation to history and ethics, and how poems offer pathways into a deeper grasp of our past and present. This new edition of Rosmarie Waldrop’s masterful translation includes an introduction by scholars Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard, which provides critical, historical, and cultural context for Daive’s enigmatic, timeless text. "Under the Dome breathes with Celan while walking with Celan, walking in the dark and the light with Celan, invoking the stillness, the silence, of the breathturn while speaking for the deeply human necessity of poetry."—Michael Palmer, author of The Laughter of the Sphinx "The fragments textured together in this more-than-magnificent rendering of Jean Daive’s prose poem by this master of the word, Rosmarie Waldrop, grab on and leave us haunted and speechless."—Mary Ann Caws, author of Creative Gatherings: Meeting Places of Modernism and editor of the Yale Anthology of Twentieth Century French Poetry "Rosmarie Waldrop's brilliant translation resonates with her profound knowledge of both Celan's and Daive's poetry and the passion for language that she shares with them. The text brings these three major poets together in a highly unusual and wholly successful collaboration."—Cole Swensen, author of On Walking On "Rosmarie Waldrop takes up Celan’s question to Jean Daive as her own. I cannot unread her inimitable ease in these pages. This is a book that contends with time."—Fady Joudah, author of Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance "Daive's writing is a highly punctuated recollection, a memoir, perhaps a testimony, but also surely a way of attending to the time of the writing, the conditions and coordinates of Celan's various enunciations, his linguistic humility. … Celan’s death, what Daive calls 'really unforeseeable,' remains as an 'undercurrent' in the conversations recollected here, gathered up again, with an insistence and clarity of true mourning and acknowledgement."—Judith Butler, author of The Force of Nonviolence

Author : Patricia A. Saunders
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1098301013

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Four Seasons of Love by Patricia A. Saunders Pdf

From Award Winning Author of There Is Sunshine After The Rain, the author has written her latest book of poetry that is organized into four chapters that compare to the four seasons. The poetry spans all the emotions that both men and women go through from being smitten, falling in and out of love, and grief of losing the love.

Author : Alan Shapiro
Publisher : HMH
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780547607832

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Night of the Republic by Alan Shapiro Pdf

Poetry about places—from a supermarket to a strip club to a suburban home—from a poet who “seeks what lies at the deepest level of the human heart” (Chicago Tribune). In Night of the Republic, Alan Shapiro takes us on an unsettling night tour of America’s public places—a gas station restroom, shoe store, convention hall, and race track, among others—and in stark Edward Hopper–like imagery reveals the surreal and dreamlike features of these familiar but empty night spaces. Shapiro finds in them not the expected alienation but rather an odd, companionable solitude rising up from the quiet emptiness. In other poems, Shapiro writes movingly of his 1950s and ’60s childhood in Brookline, Massachusetts, with special focus on the house he grew up in. These meditations, always inflected with Shapiro’s quick wit and humor, lead to recollections of tragic and haunting events such as the Cuban missile crisis and the assassination of JFK. While Night of the Republic is Shapiro’s most ambitious work to date, it is also his most timely and urgent for the acute way it illuminates the mingling of private obsessions with public space. “His poems are both artful and unpretentious.” —Boston Review

Author : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0811200418

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A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Pdf

Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.

Author : Chandni Kapur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015032453865

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Reflections by Chandni Kapur Pdf

Author : Amit Majmudar
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781524711320

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Resistance, Rebellion, Life by Amit Majmudar Pdf

Poets on the march: 50 crucial poems written in response to the current political climate, selected and introduced by the Ohio Poet Laureate—and son of immigrants—Amit Majmudar. In a political atmosphere where language and even meaning itself are continually under threat, poetry has a critical role to play. And our poets have been responding—in the streets and at their desks, demanding a full accounting from themselves and from their nation. Majmudar's elegant introduction to these vital poems reminds us that "false stories take a lot of killing because they are made of language. Because they are made of language, though, they can be killed." From Solmaz Sharif and Eileen Myles to Kevin Young and Juan Felipe Herrera, American poets of diverse styles and strategies have contributed their truths: scenes from the front lines of resistance, and from the interior of our collective conscience. A final cento by Majmudar—a poem including at least one line or phrase from each of the poems in the volume—celebrates the robust multiplicity of voices in this book and in America now.

Author : Anne Waldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040327236

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Fast Speaking Woman by Anne Waldman Pdf

Author : Donald A. Heneghan,Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher : Grolier, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0910672598

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The City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 1955-2005 by Donald A. Heneghan,Lawrence Ferlinghetti Pdf

This catalogue is a study of the noted and influential City Lights Pocket Poets series from the collection of Grolier Club member Donald Heneghan. It contains fifty-two volumes chosen from a retrospective of forty years of City Lights Pockets Poets, an introduction by Larence Ferlinghetti, and one illustration. The exhibition was held from March 23 to May 1, 2005. This catalogue was the winner of a 2006 Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Catalogue Award.