Poetry as Insurgent Art
Book Details
Author(s)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher
New Directions
ISBN / ASIN
0811217191
ISBN-13
9780811217194
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Sales Rank
#171,525
Category
Literary Criticism
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
A manifesto, essay, and discourse on the value of poetic thought in the modern age.
In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti s A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one best-selling volume of poetry by any living American poet. Now, New Directions is proud to publish his manifesto in a paperback edition.
