Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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.
Books by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Nancy Peters
Hardback, 2017
At last, a compact, powerful overview of one of America’s most beloved and radical poets—spanning more than six decades of workWriting Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960–2013
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Giada Diano, Matthew Gleeson
Hardback, 2015
Motorcycle Diaries for a new generation, this long-awaited volume provides a panoramic portrait of art and life across the twentieth century.A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Paperback, 1968
Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind has become a modern classic. It has been translated into nine languages and there are now three-quarters of a million copies in print.Her
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Vincent McHugh
Paperback, 1960
"A surreal semi-autobiographical blackbook record of a semi-mad period of my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh madonnas with spiritual ones." This...The Secret Meaning of Things: Poetry
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Paperback, 1968
Wild Dreams of a New Beginning
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Paperback, 1989
These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Paperback, 1995
A Far Rockaway of the Heart: Poems
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Paperback, 1999
A Far Rockaway of the Heart is Ferlinghetti's sequel to A Coney Island of the Mind, written forty years later, in what the author has called "a poetry seizure" that lasted more than a year.How to Paint Sunlight: Lyric Poems & Others (1997-2000)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Paperback, 2002
Time of Useful Consciousness
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Hardback, 2012
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book since Poetry as Insurgent Art, a new call to action and a vivid picture of civilization moving towards its brink.