Writing Across the Landscape

Travel Journals 1950-2013

9 April 2019

Description

Motorcycle Diaries for a new generation, this long-awaited volume provides a panoramic portrait of art and life across the twentieth century.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti—legendary poet and best-selling author—collects here his travel journals. Traversing the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, Writing Across the Landscape positions Ferlinghetti as a major voice whose personal writings are now added to the fabric of twentieth-century literary history. The volume gives glimpses of figures like William Burroughs in London, Ezra Pound in Italy and Fidel Castro at the dawn of the Revolution. Readers will journey to Mexico, Morocco, Paris and Rome, as well as to post-Stalinist Russia on a harrowing journey on the Trans-Siberian Express. Embedded with new poems and Ferlinghetti’s pyrotechnic prose, Writing Across the Landscape evokes the people, places and political movements that have shaped our time.

Reviews

"Ferlinghetti move[s] through the decades...in the grip of managed melancholy; a detached and watchful sympathy for the world and its follies." — Iain Sinclair, London Review of Books

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    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.
  • The Secret Meaning of Things: Poetry

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Paperback, 1968

  • 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...
  • 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 work
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    Lorenzo Chiera, Massimiliano Chiamenti, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Hardback, 2015

    Ferlinghetti’s fiery translation of the little-known 14th-century Roman poet

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