Over All the Obscene Boundaries: European Poems and Transitions - Softcover

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811209202 ISBN 13: 9780811209205

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1984

Synopsis

These poems on European themes by the author of Her (his Paris novel) and the enduring A Coney Island of the Mind were mostly written during the last seven years and, in the poet’s words, are “transformations and transitions looking westward to America and beyond.” Flowing from France to Italy to the Netherlands, on to Germany, back to France, and finally toward America, they follow Ferlinghetti’s own recent journeying. The poems progress geographically and chronologically with a cohesive development of ideas and themes. In part he plays off T. S. Eliot’s “summarizing the past by theft and allusion” but captures the present as well in fleeting incidents of daily experience, and, in his powerful concluding poem “History of the A TV Docu-drama,” envisions a possible nuclear future. It is a view of our time and of where we are in it, seen by an eagle eye, told in Ferlinghetti’s inimitable everyman’s voice.

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An Afternoon Idyll
Amant Des Gares
The Angry God
At The Gare Bruxelles-midi
Bach & Mozart In Saint-julien-le-pauvre
Cafe Notre Dame
Canti Romani
Canti Toscani
A Dark Portrait
Darkness, Chez George Whitman
Expressionist History Of German Expressionism
Fable Of The So-called Birds
Finistere
Firenze, A Lifetime Later
The Generals - A Naive Dream
He With The Beating Wings
History Of The World: A Tv Docu-drama
Horse In Amsterdam, After Rembrandt
How Clear Your Voice From Belgrade
Inscrutable
John Lennon In The Porto Santo Stefano
L'occupation Obsedee
La Dame Aux Camelias
Late Impressionist Dream
The Light
The Living Theatre
Making Love In Poetry
Milano-bruxelles
Monsieur Nicholas
Morlaix: Into The Future With Neil Young
The Mouth Of Truth
A Note After Reading The Diaries Of Paul Klee
Oiseau Delabre
Paris Transformations
The Photo Of Emily
Plan Du Centre De Paris A Vol D'oiseau
Plane Life
The Plough Of Time
The Rebels
Returning To Paris With Pissarro
The Revolutionary
Ristorane Vittoria, Milan
Scene From A Street Opera
Seeing A Woman As In A Painting By Berthe Morisot
Triste Corbiere
Two Amsterdams
Under The Bridges
Voix Glauque
Women In Rooms
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811209202
• ISBN 13: 9780811209205
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 122