These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman’s voice, including more than fifty pages of new work. The tone has deepened over the years, and he may now be seen as a true maestro in his field. Behind the irresistible air of immediacy and spontaneity lies much erudition and an antic imagination intent on subverting "the dominant paradigm." From his earliest books, including his landmark Coney Island of the Mind, Ferlinghetti has written poetry "in ways that those who see poetry as the province of the few and educated had never imagined. That strength has turned out to be lasting" (Joel Oppenheimer, N. Y. Times Books Review).

"..the foremost chronicler of our time." -- Library Journal
"Tenderly lyrical, outrageously irreverent, yet always accessible." -- Fort Worth Star Telegram

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	9780811212731
ISBN 10	0811212734
Title	These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993
Author	Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Year published	1995-01-20
Number of pages	320
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