Description
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.
Reviews
"His poems burn through modern America’s absurdities and unrepentant historical revision in a glorious rant against mediocrity, greed, capitalism and boring poetry." — Publishers Weekly
"Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a national treasure and the kind of poet laureate we really deserve." — CounterPunch
"In the spirit of Whitman, [Ferlinghetti] unwinds a country in all its speed and vibrancy." — San Francisco Chronicle
"Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s engrossing new work, Time of Useful Consciousness, is an ode to modern American myth. At ninety-two, Ferlinghetti has rhythm, he has vision, and he captures the magic energy of Jack Kerouac." — The Coffin Factory
"Time of Useful Consciousness is a fresh missive from an elderly Beat who has always refused to sit down." — Truthdig
"Ferlinghetti refers to Ginsberg as 'the Whitman of our age,' but Time of Useful Consciousness has that epic, galvanizing, country-hopping voice of a latter-day Good Gray as Ferlinghetti recreates the pioneer spirit of racing west for gold, for freedom, for art, for land, for the hell of it, for life—as well as all the messy stops along the way." — Christopher Bollen, Interview Magazine
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