| A Far Rockaway of the Heart: Poems Contributor(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (Author) |
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ISBN: 0811213986 ISBN-13: 9780811213981 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: The sequel to Ferlinghetti's "A Coney Island of the Mind", this sequence of 100 poems with recurrent themes includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as confrontations with major figures in the avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 96052782 |
| Series: New Directions Paperbook |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.38" W x 7.98" (0.40 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A sequence of one hundred and one poems with recurrent themes, it includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as confrontations with major figures in the avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation. This edition now includes eighteen new poems from Ferlinghetti's Pictures of the Gone World which he publishes under his City Lights imprint. A self-styled stand-up tragedian, Ferlinghetti has been called the foremost chronicler of our times. If A Coney Island of the Mind was a generations vibrant eye-opener, A Far Rockaway of the Heart is a wake-up call for a new age. |
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. |