A Coney Island of the Mind

A Coney Island of the Mind
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1958
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811200417

Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.

A Far Rockaway of the Heart

A Far Rockaway of the Heart
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811213981

The sequel to Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the Mind", this sequence of 100 poems with recurrent themes includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as confrontations with major figures in the avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation.

Little Boy

Little Boy
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525565957

From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament -- part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-inflected torrent of language and feeling, and all magical. "A volcanic explosion of personal memories, political rants, social commentary, environmental jeremiads and cultural analysis all tangled together in one breathless sentence that would make James Joyce proud. . ." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post In this unapologetically unclassifiable work Lawrence Ferlinghetti lets loose an exhilarating rush of language to craft what might be termed a closing statement about his highly significant and productive 99 years on this planet. The "Little Boy" of the title is Ferlinghetti himself as a child, shuffled from his overburdened mother to his French aunt to foster childhood with a rich Bronxville family. Service in World War Two (including the D-Day landing), graduate work, and a scholar gypsy's vagabond life in Paris followed. These biographical reminiscences are interweaved with Allen Ginsberg-esque high energy bursts of raw emotion, rumination, reflection, reminiscence and prognostication on what we may face as a species on Planet Earth in the future. Little Boy is a magical font of literary lore with allusions galore, a final repository of hard-earned and durable wisdom, a compositional high wire act without a net (or all that much punctuation) and just a gas and an inspiration to read.

These are My Rivers

These are My Rivers
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1993
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811212731

Ferlinghetti has been telling the truth in poems for more than four decades, and every indication is that he will continue to be heard when all the pretenders have turned to witless stone. Certainly the more than 50 pages of new work included here with his own selections of earlier work continue to maintain the faith. Published by New Directions, 80 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

San Francisco Poems

San Francisco Poems
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: City Lights Books
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2001
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781931404013

Poems about the City by the Bay by its first official Poet Laureate.

Americus

Americus
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811215787

In less than a year, Lawrence Ferlinghetti won a lifetime achievement award from the Author's Guild, received the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and celebrated the 50th anniversary of his renowned City Lights Bookstore. Now, instead of resting on these many laurels, the elder statesman of American poetry lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. narrative, Americus. Describing his work as part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epic....a descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true fiction, lyric and political..., Ferlinghetti merges certain universal texts, snatches of song, words or phrases, murmuring of love or hate, from Lotte Lenya to the latest soul singer, sayings and shibboleths from Yogi Berra to the National Anthem and the Gettysburg Address or the Ginsberg Address, that haunt our nocturnal imagination.... This sit-up-and-take-notice work breaks new ground in the grand tradition of Whitman, Williams, Olson and Pound, as Ferlinghetti stalks our literary and political landscapes, past and present, to articulate the unique voice of America and create an autobiography of our collective American consciousness. Born to Italian parents in Yonkers, New York in 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti served in the navy during WWII and received degrees from the U. of North Carolina, Columbia and the Sorbonne in Paris. Since 1953 he has been the owner and publisher of City Lights Books in San Francisco.

A Coney Island Reader

A Coney Island Reader
Author: Louis J. Parascandola
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2014-12-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0231538197

This literary anthology celebrates the history and romance of Coney Island with works by some of the 19th and 20th centuries’ greatest authors and poets. Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe—this anthology illuminates the unique history and transporting experience of New York City’s quintessential beach destination. Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. Its fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach offer a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events that have inspired writers of all types and nationalities. It becomes, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind."

Her

Her
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1960
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780811200424

"A surreal semi-autobiographical blackbook record of a semi-mad period of my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh madonnas with spiritual ones." This is how the author describes this extraordinary expatriate novel.

The Secret Meaning of Things

The Secret Meaning of Things
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1969
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780811200455

The Secret Meaning of Things is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's fourth book of poems.