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Includes writings by such individuals as Robert Duncan, Malcolm Lowry, Robert Nichols, Allen Ginsberg, and Kenneth Patchen.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Close to one hundred figurative drawings in black and white, and in color, mostly nudes in love or strife, some “disastered by life,” some with incisive or caustic words integrated…
Second, expanded edition, with eighteen new poems.
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A hypnotic tale of a Little Boy’s life - and the craziness of the century that witnessed it - from one of the last surviving members of the Beat Generation.
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A collection of poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, set in San Francisco. He seeks to bring alive scenes of city life: a Giants baseball game, bohemian North Beach, Golden Gate Park…
A comprehensive selection from Ferlinghetti’s famed City Lights Pocket Poets Series, published on the 60th anniversary of its founding.
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A novelistic memoir by famed poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti –
The volume that launched City Lights’ iconic Pocket Poets Series, Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s first collection of poems, in an anniversary edition.
In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti’s…
Two acclaimed poetry volumes, Who Are We Now? (1976) and Landscapes of Livingand Dying (1979), are brought together.
Gathers poems from each period of the poet’s career, including poems dealing with fame, memory, politics, love, travel, and poetry.
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…
Routines, first published by New Directions in 1964 and going through four printings, is now reissued with the addition of three more of Ferlinghetti’s very short experimental plays.
In his introduction to this collection of poems, Lawrence Ferlinghetti says All I have ever wanted to do was to paint light on the walls of life , and for…
Lawrence Ferlinghetti lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. epic, Americus.
Describing Americus as part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epica descant, a canto…
Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s first book since Poetry as Insurgent Art, a new call to action and a vivid picture of civilization moving towards its brink.
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A new, shorter collection by America’s preeminent living poet and social activist, who is just as fiery and provocative as ever at 94 years old.
The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller’s Into the Night Life and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a…
The Secret Meaning of Things is Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s fourth book of poems.
These poems on European themes by the author of Her (his Paris novel) and the enduring A Coney Island of the Mind were mostly written during the last seven years…
Ron Whitehead
Beat Poems, Stories, Interviews, and Photos from the Underground by Ron Whitehead
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Christ Climbed Down, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
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A Study Guide for Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Constantly Risking Absurdity, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Bill Morgan
A study of the relationship between Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Thomas Merton, collected by Beat historian Bill Morgan.
At last, a compact, powerful overview of one of America’s most beloved and radical poets-spanning more than six decades of work
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,etc.
Starting From San Francisco, first published in 1961, is the third collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry.
Jacques Prevert
Clear and cinematic, the Picasso of modern French poetry writes as one talks while working.
The ultimate literary guide to San Francisco, packed with fabulous photos and scintillating anecdotes.
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…
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Life on the outskirts of modern Rome seen as an inferno.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,Allen Ginsberg
One of the longest relationships between a publisher and a writer, documented in an intimate correspondence spanning their respective careers.
Either Limits Or Contradictions is a photo book about the pace of life, death and time passing by Nick Meyer.
Ernesto Cardenal
The most comprehensive selection of poems in English by Latin America s legendary poet-activist, Ernesto Cardenal.
Lorenzo Chiera
Ferlinghetti’s fiery translation of the little-known 14th-century Roman poet
Malcolm Lowry
First collection of Lowry’s extensive poetic canon, including most of the Mexican verses related to his novel, Under the Volcano.
Homero Aridjis,Betty Ferber,George McWhirter
New Directions continues its public service to literature with this lively introduction to contemporary Mexican poet-diplomat Homero Aridjis. – Publishers Weekly.
Osama Alomar,Lawrence Ferlinghetti,Oliverio Girondo,Dunya Mikhail
Collections 9-12 in New Directions’ Poetry Pamphlet series
Philip Lamantia
Represents the lifework of the visionary poet of the American postwar generation. In this book, the author aims to extend and renew the visionary tradition of Romanticism in American vernacular…
Containing more than a hundred poems by seventy-four poets of twenty-two nationalities, this work represents the abundance of poems about horses that have been written throughout the ages and around…
Motorcycle Diaries for a new generation, this long-awaited volume provides a panoramic portrait of art and life across the twentieth century.
