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Pictures of the Gone World

60th Anniversary Edition

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Hardback

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English
City Lights Books
05 January 2016
Lawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author of A Coney Island of the Mind, he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet. He launched City Lights Publishers that year with a five-hundred-copy letterpress edition of Pictures of the Gone World, Number One in the Pocket Poets Series. A classic collection of early work, Pictures includes many of Ferlinghetti's most iconic poems. This limited edition sixtieth anniversary hardcover restores the book to its original selection, and is a must for collectors and fans.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a poet, painter, and founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
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Imprint:   City Lights Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Height: 158mm,  Width: 120mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   127g
ISBN:   9780872866904
ISBN 10:   0872866904
Series:   City Lights Pocket Poets Series
Pages:   48
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

A prominent voice of the wide-open poetry movement that began in the 1950s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has written poetry, translation, fiction, theater, art criticism, film narration and essays. Often concerned with politics and social issues, Ferlinghetti's poetry countered the literary elite's definition of art and the artist's role in the world. He is the author of A Coney Island of the Mind, America's most popular book of poetry and, most recently, Time of Useful Consciousness. He is also a lifelong painter and publisher, and the co-founder and owner of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers in San Francisco, California.

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