In less than a year, Lawrence Ferlinghetti won a lifetime achievement award from the Author's Guild, received the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and celebrated the 50th anniversary of his renowned City Lights Bookstore. Now, instead of resting on these many laurels, the elder statesman of American poetry lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-USA narrative, Americus . Describing his work as part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epic....a descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true fiction, lyric and political..., Ferlinghetti merges certain universal texts, snatches of song, words or phrases, murmuring of love or hate, from Lotte Lenya to the latest soul singer, sayings and shibboleths from Yogi Berra to the National Anthem and the Gettysburg Address or the Ginsberg Address, that haunt our nocturnal imagination.... This sit-up-and-take-notice work breaks new ground in the grand tradition of Whitman, Williams, Olson and Pound, as Ferlinghetti stalks our literary and political landscapes, past and present, to articulate the unique voice of America and create an autobiography of our collective American consciousness.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811215784
ISBN-13
9780811215787
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30227137
Product Key Features
Book Title
Americus, Book I
Author
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Places, General, American / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ps3511.E557a83 2004
Volume Number
Vol. 1
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2003-028142
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