Poetry as Insurgent Art

Description

In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one best-selling volume of poetry by any living American poet.

Product Details

Price

$16.95 $15.76

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Publish Date

September 17, 2007

Pages

Dimensions

5.52 X 0.52 X 6.35 inches | 0.32 pounds

Language

English

Type

Hardcover

EAN/UPC

9780811217194

BISAC Categories:

Poetry

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About the Author

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.

Poetry