City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0872863115 ISBN 13: 9780872863118

Publisher: City Lights Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

"This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history.

From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Even though some say that an avant-garde in literature no longer exists, the smaller independent publisher is itself still a true avant-garde, its place still out there, scouting the unknown . . . From the beginning, the aim was to publish across the board, avoiding the provincial and the academic . . . I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment . . .”

Includes poetry by:
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, Allen Ginsberg, Marie Ponsot, Denise Levertov, Gregory Corso, Jacques Prévert, Robert Duncan, Jerome Rothenberg, Nicanor Parra, Robert Nichols, Anselm Hollo, Malcolm Lowry, Frank O’Hara, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, Janine Pommy-Vega, Charles Upton, Pablo Picasso, Robert Bly, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, Andrei Voznesensky, Pete Winslow, Harold Norse, Anne Waldman, Jack Hirschman, Stefan Brect, Peter Orlovsky, Antler, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ernesto Cardenal, Antonio Porta, Adam Cornford, La Loca, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Daisy Zamora, Rosario Murillo, and Alberto Blanco.

About this title

About the Author:

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers, is the author of A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of the Gone World, among numerous other books, and the publisher of the famed Pocket Poets Series, among many other titles at his City Lights press.

Review:

Forty years of publishing and Bay Area history are reflected in this poetry anthology, which includes classic poems edited or written by such Beat notables as Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Patchen, Jack Kerouac, and beyond. The focus on avant-garde literary contributes provides an unusually broad spectrum and definition and a quality not usually seen consistently in modern poetry collections. -- Midwest Book Review

Homecoming Of Love Amongst Illustrious Ruins by Rafael Alberti
Factory: 1, Sels. by Antler [pseud.]
Factory: 13, Sels. by Antler [pseud.]
A Death Fugue by Paul Antschel
Music In The Age Of Iron by Alberto Blanco
Poem Seen In A Motel Fan by Alberto Blanco
1. by Robert Bly
Sex, Sels. by Stefan Brecht
Silence by Stefan Brecht
Silence, 2 by Stefan Brecht
Thanksgiving (1974) by Stefan Brecht
Room 5600 by Ernesto Cardenal
The Rapture by Adam Cornford
Ode To Coit Tower by Gregory Corso
April Fool Birthday Poem For Grandpa by Diane Di Prima
Revolutionary Letter: 1 by Diane Di Prima
Among My Friends Love Is A Great Sorrow by Robert Duncan
The Drinking Fountain by Robert Duncan
Sleep Is A Deep And Many Voiced Flood by Robert Duncan
Hotel Fraternite by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Pictures Of The Gone World: 21 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pictures Of The Gone World: 25 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pictures Of The Gone World: 26 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Weeping by Federico Garcia Lorca
1. by Allen Ginsberg
4. by Allen Ginsberg
5. Father Death Blues by Allen Ginsberg
'back On Times Square, Dreaming Of Times Square' by Allen Ginsberg
Elegy For Neal Cassady by Allen Ginsberg
Footnote To Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Haunting Poe's Baltimore by Allen Ginsberg
My Alba by Allen Ginsberg
Part 2 by Allen Ginsberg
So I Dream Nightly Of Embarkation by Allen Ginsberg
This Form Of Life Needs Sex by Allen Ginsberg
To Aunt Rose by Allen Ginsberg
A Vow by Allen Ginsberg
We Rise On Sun Beams And Fall In The Night by Allen Ginsberg
Why Is God Love, Jack? by Allen Ginsberg
Gasco, Or The Toad by Gunter Wilhelm Grass
Madrigal by Nicolas Guillen
Homesick by Helmut Heissenbuttel
Headlands by Jack Hirschman
Transfiguration by Jack Hirschman
X L E B by Jack Hirschman
Held Back, Like A Bow Drawn Tight by Walter Hollerer
Heavy Water Blues by Bob Kaufman
Unhistorical Events by Bob Kaufman
Flies by John Kerouac
How To Meditate by John Kerouac
Hymn by John Kerouac
Mexican Lonliness by John Kerouac
Poem by John Kerouac
Poem by John Kerouac
Poem by John Kerouac
The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity by John Kerouac
The New Heart by Semyon Kirsanov
Why I Choose Black Men For My Lovers by La Loca
The Romantic Movement by Philip Lamantia
Time Traveler's Potlatch by Philip Lamantia
Voice Of Earth Mediums by Philip Lamantia
A Winter Day by Philip Lamantia
The Gypsy's Window by Denise Levertov
People At Night (derived From Rilke) by Denise Levertov
After Publication Of 'under The Volcano' by Malcolm Lowry
Death Of A Oaxaquenian by Malcolm Lowry
Iron Cities by Malcolm Lowry
Joseph Conrad by Malcolm Lowry
The Volcano Is Dark by Malcolm Lowry
Meditation For This Day by Antonio Machado Ruiz
Listen! by Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
Angel In The Deluge by Rosario Murillo
Conversation In Front Of A Heliocopter by Rosario Murillo
Get-away, Sels. by Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols
Believing In The Absurd by Harold Nourse
The Business Of Poetry by Harold Nourse
I Would Not Recommend Love by Harold Nourse
Picasso Visits Braque by Harold Nourse
Ave Maria by Frank O'hara
Cornkind by Frank O'hara
Personal Poem by Frank O'hara
Poem by Frank O'hara
Collaboration: Letter To Charlie Chaplin by Peter Orlovsky
Poems From Subway To Work: 1 by Peter Orlovsky
Poems From Subway To Work: 2 by Peter Orlovsky
Poems From Subway To Work: 3. Fantasy Of My Mother ... On Welfare by Peter Orlovsky
Snail Poem by Peter Orlovsky
Vices Of The Modern World by Nicanor Parra
The Body Beside The Ties by Kenneth Patchen
The Character Of Love Seen As Search For The Lost by Kenneth Patchen
In Judgment Of The Leaf by Kenneth Patchen
O Now The Drenched Land Wakes by Kenneth Patchen
The Origin Of Baseball by Kenneth Patchen
Pastoral by Kenneth Patchen
The Sea Is Awash With Roses by Kenneth Patchen
The State Of The Nation by Kenneth Patchen
Street Corner College by Kenneth Patchen
While The Sun Still Spends His Fabulous Money by Kenneth Patchen
9.1.59: 2 by Pablo Picasso
9.1.59: 6 by Pablo Picasso
In The Woods by Heinz Piontek
Analogue by Marie Ponsot
A La Une by Marie Ponsot
Matins And Lauds by Marie Ponsot
Multipara: Gravida 5 by Marie Ponsot
Rockefeller The Center by Marie Ponsot
The Age Of Unhappiness Has Arrived, Or Is It by Antonio Porta
I'm Walking Out On Rome by Antonio Porta
The Discourse On Peace by Jacques Prevert
Familial by Jacques Prevert
The Last Supper by Jacques Prevert
Pater Noster by Jacques Prevert
Quartier Libre by Jacques Prevert
Poem by Naftali Ricardo Reyes Basuato
Part 1. by Charles Upton
Part 2. by Charles Upton
Ah Certainty Of Love In The Hand by Janine Pommy Vega
Here Before The Sunrise Blue & In This Solitude by Janine Pommy Vega
((((((hollanditis)))))) by Simon Vinkenoog
The Big Fire At The Agricultural College by Andrey (andrei) Andreyevich Voznesensky
Dogalypse by Andrey (andrei) Andreyevich Voznesensky
Because I Don't Have To Spit by Anne Waldman
Kora In Hell, Sels. by William Carlos Williams
I Blink And Half My Life Is Over by Pete Winslow
O God Of Spring Forgive Me by Pete Winslow
From A Talk by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko
Downpour by Daisy Zamora
A Report On The Protest In Front Of The United States Embassy ... by Daisy Zamora
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0872863115
• ISBN 13: 9780872863118
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 259
• Editor: Ferlinghetti Lawrence