THESE ARE MY RIVERS

FERLINGHETTI, L

ISBN 10: 0811212734 / ISBN 13: 9780811212731

Published by New Directions, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THESE ARE MY RIVERS
• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811212734
• ISBN 13: 9780811212731
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: NEW

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Synopsis

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (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 "the dominant paradigm." From his earliest books, including his landmark Coney Island of the Mind, Ferlinghetti has written poetry "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" (Joel Oppenheimer, N. Y. Times Books Review).

About the Author

In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti cofounded City Lights, the first paperback bookstore in the United States, a Mecca for millions. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry by any living American poet. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, Ferlinghetti has received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation.