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Her Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811200424
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99"To all those who have for several years sought to discredit the new American literature, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has just dealt a most powerful blow," wrote French critic Pierre Lepape in 1961 when... -
Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.22'A brave man and a brave poet.' Bob Dylan'Utterly extraordinary.' Guardian'A torrent of textual splendor.' Los Angeles TimesFrom growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at... -
Blasts Cries Laughter by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.46Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Blasts contains blasts, blessings, and curses in the vortex of today, taking its cues from the original little magazine, Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis with Ezra Pound in... -
Ferlinghetti's Greatest Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99At last, just in time for his 99th birthday, a powerful overview of one of America's most beloved poets: New Directions is proud to present a swift, terrific chronological selection of Ferlinghetti's... -
Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $13.36Published 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... -
Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.75In 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... -
San Francisco Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9781931404013
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.85Here are all of Ferlinghetti's poems set in the city he has lived in for over half a century. He brings alive, with wit and lyricism, scenes of city life: a Giants baseball game, the Green Street... -
Wild Dreams of a New Beginning by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811210751
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.26Wild Dreams of a New Beginning brings together two acclaimed poetry volumes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of our "ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist). Who Are We Now? (1976), the first half... -
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811200417
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.19The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's-as... -
The View From Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Bathroom Window by Ron Whitehead 9781732209718
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732209718Author Ron WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Underground BooksPublisher... -
These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.60Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman's voice, including more than fifty pages of new... -
Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry: City Lights Pocket Poets Number 17 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.36While famous for his celebrated novel, Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry always considered himself a poet. First published in 1962 and long out of print, Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry is the only... -
City Lights: Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore Gioia Woods 9781647792398
RRP: $89.70Booksplease Price: $74.74On a San Francisco street corner in 1953, aspiring painter and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti shook hands with sociology instructor and magazine editor Peter Martin. Their handshake sealed Ferlinghetti's... -
European Poems & Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811210843
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.60These poems on European themes by the author of Her (his Paris novel) and the enduring A Coney Island of the Mind were mostly written during the last seven years and, in the poet's words, are... -
Thomas Merton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the Protection of All Beings by Bill Morgan 9780993409998
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993409998Author Bill MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Beatdom BooksPublisher Beatdom... -
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1950-2013 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9781631495946
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $32.49Lawrence Ferlinghetti-legendary poet and best-selling author-collects here his travel journals. Traversing the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, Writing Across the Landscape... -
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9781631490019
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $49.39Lawrence Ferlinghetti-legendary poet and best-selling author-collects here his travel journals. Traversing the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, Writing Across the Landscape... -
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology: 60th Anniversary Edition by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780872866799
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.14"Printer's ink is the greater explosive." Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary... -
A Study Guide for Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Christ Climbed Down by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375378024
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375378024Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Gale, Study... -
A Study Guide for Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Constantly Risking Absurdity by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375378253
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $18.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375378253Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study... -
Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life by Sounes 9780802136978
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $29.07An illustrated biography of the cult writer who transformed his alcohol-soaked life into such novels as "Post Office" and "Women", and whose life was portrayed in the film "Barfly". It follows his... -
The Cubalogues by Todd F. Tietchen 9780813054629
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07Immediately after the Cuban Revolution, Havana fostered an important transnational intellectual and cultural scene. Later, Castro would strictly impose his vision of Cuban culture on the populace and... -
Shards: Fragments of Verses by Lorenzo Chiera 9780811224758
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.99Sensual and glimmering, Lorenzo Chiera's elliptical fragments evoke nights of bawdy excess in Trastevere ("City made of Roman ruins . . . / what a whorehouse!"), translated here by one of the most... -
Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation by Carole Tonkinson
Booksplease Price: $38.90Essays, poems, photographs, and letters explore the link between Buddhism and the Beats--with previously unpublished material from several beat writers, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg,... -
Good as Gone: My Life with Irving Layton Anna Pottier 9781459728561
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $27.16After falling in love with and marrying a man two lifetimes older than her, Irving Layton's last wife shares the story of her life with the acclaimed poet.While a student at Dalhousie University,... -
Water Chasing Water: New and Selected Poetry by Koon Woon by Koon Woon 9781885030498
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Described by Bob Holman as "Li Po in drag, the voice of New America," Koon Woon exploded onto the poetry scene in the late 1990s. Largely self-taught, and struggling with both mental illness and... -
The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature A. Robert Lee 9781032095400
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $88.20Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown familiar? Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs. Likewise the frontline texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in modern... -
The Spirit of the Sixties: The Making of Postwar Radicalism James J. Farrell 9780415913867
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $54.78The Spirit of the Sixties explains how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture.The Spirit of the Sixties uses political... -
Ferlinghetti: A Life by Neeli Cherkovski 9781574232592
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.27"No one mulling this gentle record will fail to be moved."-San Francisco Chronicle Poet, publisher, bookseller, activist-this is the story of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the bookshop he made a landmark... -
The Spirit of the Sixties: The Making of Postwar Radicalism by James J. Farrell
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $209.29The Spirit of the Sixties explains how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture.The Spirit of the Sixties uses political... -
No Words Posters: One Image is Enough Armando Milani 9781939125095
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $60.53No Words Posters is a collection of nearly 200 posters by over 100 designers from around the world. Milani has selectively gathered a visual repertoire of images that transcend the written word to... -
The Presence of Pessoa: English, American, and Southern African Literary Responses by George Monteiro
Booksplease Price: $59.71Fernando Pessoa (1888--1935) is perhaps the most engaging of the great Western modernists of this century. Born in Portugal but raised and educated in southern Africa, Pessoa wrote poetry, fiction,... -
State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work by Barbara Isenberg 9781566636315
Booksplease Price: $31.61If California is a state of mind, Barbara Isenberg's interviews with more than fifty of California's prominent painters, writers, composers, architects, directors, and performers help explain why... -
Seeing the Beat Generation: Entering the Literature through Film Raj Chandarlapaty 9781476675756
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $50.41Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicultural boundaries and questioned the American dream; and... -
Selected Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca 9780141185835
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the songs of his... -
The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse by T. Carmi
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.72This stunning anthology gathers together the riches of poetry in Hebrew from 'The Song of Deborah' to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the development of... -
Cat Poems by New Directions 9780811227506
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.07Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery and innumerable metaphors; cats cast a mirror on their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and... -
The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse by Daniel Karlin 9780140445787
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.30Daniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (1837-1901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, the volume offers... -
Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation by Deborah Geis 9781472567888
Booksplease Price: $90.85Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory... -
Pete Brown: The Poet Who Rocks by Marc Shapiro
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Pete Brown is a lot of things. A major songwriting talent who was responsible for Cream's classic musical moments, important collaborations with Jack Bruce and such notable experiments in jazz and...