Description
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.
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