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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Unfair Arguments With Existence |
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No copies available |
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Paperback |
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118 |
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1962 |
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B000J11V44 |
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New Directions, 1962, 1963 |
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1st |
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2 Nate (USA: IL), pidget (USA: CA) |
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2 Jory M. (USA: WA), Josh S. (USA: PA) |
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Product Description
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919) is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind. After marrying Selden Kirby-Smith in 1951 in Florida, he settled in San Francisco where he taught French in an adult education program, painted, and wrote art criticism. His first translations, of poems by the French surrealist Jacques Prevert, were published by Peter D. Martin in his popular culture magazine City Lights.
In 1953, Ferlinghetti and Martin founded City Lights Bookstore, the first all-paperbound bookshop in the country. Two years later, he launched the publishing wing of City Lights with his own first book of poems.. This volume was followed by books by Rexroth, Patchen, Ponsot, Ginsberg, Levertov, Duncan, William Carlos Williams, and Corso. Although City Lights Publishers is best known for its publication of Beat Generation writers, Ferlinghetti never intended to publish the Beats exclusively, and the press has always maintained a strong international list.Although in style and theme Ferlinghetti's own writing is very unlike that of the original NY Beat circle, he had important associations with the Beat writers. He has often claimed that he was not a Beat, but a bohemian of an earlier generation
His poetry is grounded in lyric and narrative traditions. Among his themes are the beauty of natural world, the tragicomic life of the common man, the plight of the individual in mass society, and the dream and betrayal of democracy. .
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