How to Paint Sunlight by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

How to Paint Sunlight by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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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 50 years he has been doing just that, illuminating both the everyday and the unusual in a way which is universally accessible.

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How to Paint Sunlight by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

This collection of recent poems is graced with a short introduction by the poet in which he says, All I ever wanted to do was to paint light on the walls of life. For more than fifty years Ferlinghetti has been doing just thatilluminating both the everyday and the unusual, all the while keeping true to his original dictum of speaking in a way accessible to everyone. He has been, and remains, One of our ageless radicals and true bards (Booklist) and his voice is well-known in many places around the world. He was one of the two American poets (the other being John Ashbery) chosen to participate in the 2001 Celebration of UNESCO's World Poetry Day in Delphi, Greece, where he along with his international confreres each poetically addressed the Oracle.
In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti cofounded City Lights, the first paperback bookstore in the United States, a Mecca for millions. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry by any living American poet. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, Ferlinghetti has received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation.
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ISBN 13 9780811215213
ISBN 10 0811215210
Title How to Paint Sunlight
Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Year published 2002-10-11
Number of pages 112
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.