A Far Rockaway of the Heart: Poems
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Book Overview
A sequence of one hundred and one poems with recurrent themes, it 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. This edition now includes eighteen new poems from Ferlinghetti's "Pictures of the Gone World" which he publishes under his City Lights imprint. A self-styled "stand-up tragedian," Ferlinghetti has been called...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811213986
ISBN13:9780811213981
Release Date:September 1998
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.43 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Great Bohemian Poetry
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This is a great book for exploring the Bohemian poetry movement in the U.S. (namely, San Francisco). Contains the poem, "Autobiography," in which Ferlinghetti misidentifies Mount Rushmore as existing in North Dakota--but as I met him recently at a reading at the U of Minnesota, he was cool about it--knew exactly what I was talking about. . .so maybe he has learned a little since the time he wrote it!
GREAT!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
A Far Rockaway of the Heart is Ferlinghetti's most recent anthology of poetry, and it's one of his best. With more than one hundred poems, it's also packed full of passion. I think that after many years of searching, Ferlinghetti finally found his true voice. These poems are sometimes funny, sometimes painful, but always beautifully created and full of life.
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Ferlinghetti's Light
Published by Terry Fleming • April 23, 2021
Lawrence Ferlinghetti died on February 22, 2021 at the age of one-hundred and one. In honor of Independent Bookstore Day, we’d like to pay tribute to him, the founder of the legendary City Lights Bookstore and City Lights Publishing.
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