| Pictures of the Gone World Contributor(s): Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (Author) |
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ISBN: 0872863034 ISBN-13: 9780872863033 Publisher: City Lights Books OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1955 Annotation: Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955. It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 95005423 |
| Series: Pocket Poets Series |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.8" W x 6" (0.15 lbs) 45 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author of A Coney Island of the Mind, he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet.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 with the addition of eighteen new verses, and is a must for collectors and fans. Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a poet, painter, and founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. |