Research Catalog

Title

City Lights pocket poets anthology / edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Publication

San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Description

xvi, 306 pages; 17 cm

Summary

""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 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 a handful of 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. "--

Series Statement

City Lights pocket poets series

Uniform Title

Pocket poets series

Subjects

• Poetry
• POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)
• Poetry > Collections
• Collections
• POETRY / American / General
• POETRY / Continental European

Genre/Form

Collections.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFC 15-487

ISBN

• 9780872866799 (hardback)
• 0872866793 (hardback)

LCCN

2015013722

OCLC

890179959

Title

City Lights pocket poets anthology / edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Publisher

San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2015]

Edition

60th anniversary edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

City Lights pocket poets series

Pocket poets series

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, editor.

Research Call Number

JFC 15-487