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001 2015013722
003 DLC
005 20150801083615.0
008 150511s2015 cau 000 0 eng
010 $a 2015013722
020 $a9780872866799 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN6101$b.C57 2015
082 00 $a808.81$223
084 $aPOE001000$aPOE005010$aPOE005030$2bisacsh
245 00 $aCity Lights pocket poets anthology /$cedited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
250 $a60th anniversary edition.
264 1 $aSan Francisco :$bCity Lights Books,$c[2015]
300 $axvi, 306 pages ;$c17 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aCity Lights pocket poets series
520 $a""Printer's ink is the greatest explosive."-Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of the Gone World-the only book of his own poems that Ferlinghetti would ever publish at City Lights. Within a year, he had brought out two more volumes, translations by Kenneth Rexroth and then poems by Kenneth Patchen. But it was the success and scandal of number four, Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1956), that put City Lights on the map, positioning the Pocket Poets Series at the forefront of the literary counterculture.A landmark sixtieth anniversary retrospective, this edition is a must-have collection, an invaluable distillation of the energetic, iconoclastic, and still fresh body of work represented in the ongoing series. Ferlinghetti has selected a handful of poems from each of the sixty volumes, including the work of Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Voznesensky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Julio Cortázar, Frank O'Hara, Marie Ponsot, Denise Levertov, Diane di Prima, Robert Duncan, Phillip Lamantia, Malcolm Lowry, and many more of the Pocket Poets Series innovative, influential, and often groundbreaking American and international poets. "--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aPoetry$vCollections.
650 7 $aPOETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOETRY / American / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOETRY / Continental European.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aFerlinghetti, Lawrence,$eeditor.