Description
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).
Reviews
"...the foremost chronicler of our time." — Library Journal
"Tenderly lyrical, outrageously irreverent, yet always accessible." — Fort Worth Star Telegram
Also By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
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.The Secret Meaning of Things: Poetry
Paperback, 1968
Her
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...
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1950-2013
Paperback, 2019
Motorcycle Diaries for a new generation, this long-awaited volume provides a panoramic portrait of art and life across the twentieth century.
Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems
Hardback, 2017
At last, a compact, powerful overview of one of America’s most beloved and radical poets—spanning more than six decades of work