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A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Ferlinghetti is a national treasure, and his voice has become part of our collective conscience. Some of his most famous poems from this collection such as "I Am Waiting" and "Junkman's Obbligato" were created for jazz accompaniment. Written in the conservative post-war 1950s, his poems still resonate, ...Show more
A Coney Island of the Mind Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
$17.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: good
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 short period in the 1950's - as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul.
Blasts Cries Laughter by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
$17.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets Ser.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Blasts contains blasts, blessings, and curses in the vortex of today, taking its cues from the original little magazine, Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis with Ezra Pound in 1914-15 that helped create the modernist movement in literature and the visual arts. In these fearless new ...Show more
I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career - The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, 1955-1997 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Allen Ginsberg; Bill Morgan (Editor)
$31.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti will forever be linked as the respective writer and publisher of Howl, and this irresistible collection of their correspondence shows the depth of their friendship and working relationship ... an impressive volume that is a must for every Beat aficionado."--Publ ...Show more
Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Little Boy was quite lost. He had no idea who he was or where he had come from . Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-horde pent-up within him. From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Par ...Show more
Roman Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
The Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini was first and always a poet--the most important civil poet, according to Alberto Moravia, in Italy in the second half of this century. His poems were at once deeply personal and passionately engaged in the political turmoil of his country. In 1949, after his ho ...Show more
Time of Useful Consciousness by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
$28.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
New Directions is proud to announce a riveting and galvanizing new book by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. At ninety-three, he shows more power than most any other poet at work today. Ferlinghetti describes his new book, Time of Useful Consciousness, as "a fragmented recording of the American stream-of-conscious ...Show more
Writing Across the Landscape - Travel Journals 1960-2010 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Giada Diano (Editor); Matthew Gleeson (Editor)
$35.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This long-awaited volume provides a panoramic portrait of art and life across the twentieth century, from Mexico to Morocco, Paris to Rome, and beyond. Over the course of an adventured-filled life, now in its tenth decade, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been many things: a poet, painter, pacifist, publisher, ...Show more
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