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Front Lines by Jack Hirschman
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist, populist, and communist, Hirschman has published over sixty books of his own poetry, and this representative selection is a cross-section of his poetic outpu ...Show more
GASOLINE AND THE VESTAL LADY ON BRATTLE by CORSO GREGORY
$17.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series.Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso's individual (therefor ...Show more
Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams (Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series Book 4 | Reading Level: very good
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. ...Show more
Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition by Frank O'Hara
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Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry. Edited by the poet in collaboration wit ...Show more
Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Category: No Category | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author ofA Coney Island of the Mind, he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet.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 ...Show more
Revolutionary Letters: Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition - Pocket Poets Series No. 27 by Diane di Prima
$36.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago. During the tumult of 1968, Beat poet Diane di Prima began wr ...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
The Scripture of the Golden Eternity by Jack Kerouac
$17.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series
These classic Kerouac meditations, Zen koans and prose poems express the poet's beatific quest for peace and joy through oneness with the universe.
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