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"Printer's ink is the greater 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 Worldand 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 retrospective celebrating 60 years of publishing and cultural history, this edition provides an invaluable distillation of the energetic, iconoclastic and still fresh body of work represented in the ongoing series. Ferlinghetti has selected a handful of poems from each of the sixty volumes, including the work of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, Pasolini, Voznesensky, Prévert, Mayakovsky, Cortázar, O'Hara, Ponsot, Levertov, di Prima, Duncan, Lamantia, Lowry, and more, all of the Pocket Poets Series' innovative, influential, and often ground-breaking American and international poets.

"Printer's ink is the greater 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 Worldand 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 retrospective celebrating 60 years of publishing and cultural history, this edition provides an invaluable distillation of the energetic, iconoclastic and still fresh body of work represented in the ongoing series. Ferlinghetti has selected a handful of poems from each of the sixty volumes, including the work of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, Pasolini, Voznesensky, Prévert, Mayakovsky, Cortázar, O'Hara, Ponsot, Levertov, di Prima, Duncan, Lamantia, Lowry, and more, all of the Pocket Poets Series' innovative, influential, and often ground-breaking American and international poets.

Über den Autor
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers, is the author of A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of the Gone World, among numerous other books, and the publisher of the famed Pocket Poets Series, among many other titles at his City Lights press.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
60th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

40th Anniversary edition, published in 1995, contained a selection of three poems each from every Pocket Poet book published in the series, up through Number 52.

This edition picks up where that left off, including all of the above, and adding three poems each (selected again by Ferlinghetti, series editor) from the titles/poets published in the series since then:

Number 53
SAVE TWILIGHT
Julio Cortázar

Number 54
ORPHIC SONGS
Dino Campana

Number 55
FRONT LINES
Jack Hirschman

Number 56
NINE ALEXANDRIAS
Semezdin Mehmedinovic

Number 57
THE LANGUAGE OF SAXOPHONES
Kamau Daáood

Number 58
STATE OF EXILE
Cristina Peri Rossi

Number 59
TAU
Philip Lamantia

Number 60
WHEN I WAS A POET
David Meltzer
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780872866799
ISBN-10: 0872866793
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: FERLINGHETTI, L ED
Redaktion: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Auflage: -60th Anniversary edition
Hersteller: City Lights Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 165 x 126 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.07.2015
Gewicht: 0,355 kg
Artikel-ID: 105125890