BOOKS - These are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems, 1955-1993
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These are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems, 1955-1993
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Year: October 1, 1993
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 11 MB
Language: English
Year: October 1, 1993
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 11 MB
Language: English
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and "one of our ageless radicals and true bards and " (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman's voice, including more than fifty pages of new work. The tone has deepened over the years, and he may now be seen as a true maestro in his field. Behind the irresistible air of immediacy and spontaneity lies much erudition and an antic imagination intent on subverting and "the dominant paradigm. and " From his earliest books, including his landmark Coney Island of the Mind, Ferlinghetti has written poetry and "in ways that those who see poetry as the province of the few and educated had never imagined. That strength has turned out to be lasting and " (Joel Oppenheimer, N. Y. Times Books Review).