| How to Paint Sunlight: Lyric Poems & Others (1997-2000) Contributor(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811215210 ISBN-13: 9780811215213 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2002 Annotation: This new collection of poems by Ferlinghetti is graced with a short introduction by the poet. For more than 50 years Ferlinghetti has been illuminating both the everyday and the unusual, all the while keeping true to his original dictum of speaking in a way accessible to everyone. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 000067860 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.38" W x 8" (0.26 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of recent poems is graced with a short introduction by the poet in which he says, All I ever wanted to do was to paint light on the walls of life. For more than fifty years Ferlinghetti has been doing just thatilluminating both the everyday and the unusual, all the while keeping true to his original dictum of speaking in a way accessible to everyone. He has been, and remains, One of our ageless radicals and true bards (Booklist) and his voice is well-known in many places around the world. He was one of the two American poets (the other being John Ashbery) chosen to participate in the 2001 Celebration of UNESCO's World Poetry Day in Delphi, Greece, where he along with his international confreres each poetically addressed the Oracle. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: - 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. |