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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Americus: Bk. 1
W W Norton & Co Ltd 2004 0811215784 / 9780811215787 Hardcover Near fine Good Hardcover
New. Sun bleaching, rubbing and bumping to dust jacket else near fine in publisher's cloth. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide.From Publishers Weekly The world-famous poet (A Coney Island of the Mind) and founder of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore and press tackles more material than ever in this first volume of verse since How to Paint Sunlight (2001). Twelve untitled sections packed with quotations and references seek, and in part arrive at, an inclusive history of America, from the startings out of its first poets to the hope and peril of the early 1960s. Calling America "the greatest experiment on earth" but warning against "Bush League Presidencies/ in totalitarian plutocracies," Ferlinghetti goes on to praise his heroes and models, "Whitman's wild children and grandchildren," from Vachel Lindsay to Ginsberg and beyond. A multi-page verse-essay on the art of poetry argues that "A poem should still be an insurgent knock on the door of the unknown." Later sections knock on the doors of various moments in modern Western historyÔ?"the Wright brothers, the Kennedy assassination, German Expressionism, the Brooklyn Dodgers. Both world wars come in for extended treatment: "No end to the sweet births of consciousness to the bitter deaths of it in vain." Ferlinghetti's exuberant, loquacious catalogues and collages try to rival previous encyclopedic and historical poems, from Eliot, Pound and Olson (all of whom he cites repeatedly) to Neruda and Paulin. This an ambitious effort, but one marked with a lack of subtlety, and an overdependence on its famous models. Copyright ® Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Garrison Keillor, The San Francisco Chronicle Thank you, Lawrence. Viva Ferlinghetti!
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