Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Pictures of the Gone World

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Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Pictures of the Gone World

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author of A Coney Island of the Mind, he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet. He launched City Lights Publishers that year with a five-hundred-copy letterpress edition of Pictures of the Gone World, Number One in the Pocket Poets Series. A classic collection of early work, Pictures includes many of Ferlinghetti's most iconic poems. This limited edition sixtieth anniversary hardcover restores the book to its original selection with the addition of eighteen new verses, and is a must for collectors and fans.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a poet, painter, and founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.

Book Details
Publisher:
City Lights Books
ISBN:
9780872863033
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
45
Authors:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Published Date:
1955-01-01
Language:
English
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About Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A defining figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021) was born in Yonkers, New York. In 1953 he co-founded City Lights Books in San Francisco, the first all-paperback bookstore in the United States. His publication of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems in 1956 led to his arrest on obscenity charges; his acquittal in 1957 was a landmark for free expression. His collection A Coney Island of the Mind (City Lights, 1958) has sold more than a million copies. He received the inaugural Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation in 2005.

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