Research Catalog

Title

Open eye, open heart / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Author

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Publication

New York : New Directions, [1973]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Huston, Gertrude, 1919-1998
• Hartmann, Ilka
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

148 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

Selected works reveal the modern poet's thoughts on personal, social and political concerns.

Series Statement

• New Directions paperbook ; 361
• NDP361

Subjects

• Wrappers (Binding)
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Dust jackets (Binding)
• Embossed stamps (Provenance)
• Postcards
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence > Portraits

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1973.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York – United States – 20th century.
• Wrappers (Binding)
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance)
• Embossed stamps (Provenance)
• Postcards.
• Portraits.

Note

• "First published clothbound ... and as New Directions Paperbook 361 ... in 1973"--verso of t.p.
• Poems.
• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: "for Bob Wilson, Ferlinghetti"--half-title.

Binding (note)

• bound in publishers' blue cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Gertrude Huston; jacket photograph of Lawrence Ferlinghetti by Ilka Hartmann.
• bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Gertrude Huston; jacket photograph of Lawrence Ferlinghetti by Ilka Hartmann.

Contents

• True confessional -- Mock confessional -- In a time of revolution for instance -- The astonished heart -- Sueño real -- Big Sur grass reverie -- Fugitive configurations -- The real magic opera begins -- Stone reality meditation -- Sunrise, Bolinas -- Song of love & desire -- Please, eternal woman, don't -- At Kenneth Rexroth's -- A phoenix at fifty -- The man who rode away -- An elegy on the death of Kenneth Patchen -- Poem for old Walt -- Into darkness, in Granada -- A Giacometti summer -- An imaginary happening, London -- London, Rainy day -- Thoughts to a concerto of Telemann -- Cro-magnons -- Several surrealist litanies for a film on the cemetery of Père Lachaise -- Toc toc: a couple observed -- Trois poèmes spontanés sur la force de frappe de l'amour à sic heures du matin -- Pound at Spoleto -- Wooden Russia still -- Perpetual revolution -- Poems from "Russian winter journal" -- Moon shot -- A spider.
• (Cont.) Concrete politics -- A parade tirade -- Telegram from Spain -- Where is Vietnam? -- Salute -- The third world -- Enigma of Ho Chi Minh's funeral -- Letter to a young poet in Cuba or maybe Spain -- A world awash with fascism and fear -- Baseball canto -- Las Vegas tilt -- Forty odd questions for the Greek regime and one cry for freedom -- Carnaval de Ma?iz -- Alaska pipe dream -- Mother of light mantra -- Big Sur sun sutra -- Laughing & crying -- Night light -- Tantric ballad -- Idol chant -- Great chain chant -- Airport mantra -- Spontaneous anarchy pacifist Buddhist song -- Nine shaman songs resung -- Streets of San Francisco -- Ballad of the boat-keeper.

Call Number

JFD 75-6193

ISBN

• 081120488X
• 9780811204880
• 0811204898
• 9780811204897

LCCN

73078784

OCLC

758070

Author

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, author.

Title

Open eye, open heart / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Publisher

New York : New Directions, [1973]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Directions paperbook ; 361

NDP361

Additional Formats

Also issued online.

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 81

Provenance

Berg Coll. copy 2 inscribed: "for Bob Wilson, Ferlinghetti"--half-title.

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-831 bound in publishers' blue cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Gertrude Huston; jacket photograph of Lawrence Ferlinghetti by Ilka Hartmann. NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-832 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Gertrude Huston; jacket photograph of Lawrence Ferlinghetti by Ilka Hartmann. NN

Local Note

Copies in Berg Coll 22-831 and 22-832 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Berg Coll. copy 1 bound in blue cloth over boards with printed dust jacket.

Berg Coll. copy 1 contains postcard with ms. note on recto: "lawrence ferlinghetti?"--laid in.

Berg Coll. copy 1 contains "ADC" embossed stamp on t.p.

Berg Coll. copy 2 bound in printed paper wrappers.

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Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Huston, Gertrude, 1919-1998, cover designer, bookjacket designer.

Hartmann, Ilka, photographer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, inscriber.

Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922-2016, former owner.

Charters, Ann. former owner

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Other Form:

Online version: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Open eye, open heart. [New York, New Directions Pub. Corp., 1973] (OCoLC)557861569

Research Call Number

JFD 75-6193

Berg Coll Ferlinghetti O64 1973

Berg Coll 22-831

Berg Coll 22-832