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Her Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811200424
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30"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... -
Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.79In 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... -
Blasts Cries Laughter by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44Lawrence 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.51At 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... -
Time of Useful Consciousness by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811220316
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.36New Directions is proud to announce a riveting and galvanizing new book by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. At ninety-three, he shows more power than most any other poet at work today. Ferlinghetti describes... -
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811200417
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.85The 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... -
A Far Rockaway of the Heart: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811213981
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30A 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... -
These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Lawrence 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... -
Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1950-2013 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9781631495946
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.66Lawrence 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... -
European Poems & Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries by Lawrence Ferlinghetti 9780811210843
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05These 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... -
A Study Guide for Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Christ Climbed Down by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375378024
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Shards: Fragments of Verses by Lorenzo Chiera 9780811224758
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Sensual 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: £19.95Essays, 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,... -
State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work by Barbara Isenberg 9781566636315
Booksplease Price: £16.21If 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... -
The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse by Daniel Karlin 9780140445787
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Daniel 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 Poets by Carmela Ciuraru
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £8.82This rousing anthology features the work of more than twenty-five writers from the great twentieth-century counter-cultural literary movement. Writing with an audacious swagger and an iconoclastic... -
Pete Brown: The Poet Who Rocks by Marc Shapiro
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Pete 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... -
Cat Poems by New Directions 9780811227506
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.72Across 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... -
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Allen Ginsberg was the bard of the beat generation, and Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems is a collection of his finest work published in Penguin Modern Classics, including 'Howl', whose vindication at... -
Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation by Deborah Geis 9781472567888
Booksplease Price: £46.59Readers 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... -
French Love Poems by New Directions 9780811225595
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love... -
Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition by Frank O'Hara
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Exquisite hardcover gift edition of the groundbreaking poetry collection by the leader of the "New York School" of poetry, Frank O'Hara. Published on the 50th anniversary of Lunch Poems.Lunch Poems,... -
Christmas Poems by Albert M. Hayes 9780811218085
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44Christmas Poems is a pleasing and diverse selection of classic holiday poems that goes all the way back to an eclogue of Virgil, moves along to a wide range of authors such as Chaucer, Herbert,... -
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima 9780995716261
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.29By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant... -
Cat Poems by Elizabeth Bishop
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your... -
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RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97You Know How a Cat will bring a mouse it has caught and lay it at your feet so each morning I bring you a poem that I've written when I woke up in the night as my tribute to your... -
A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion by Louis J. Parascandola 9780231165730
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.43Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Jose Marti, Maxim Gorky, Federico Garcia Lorca, Isaac... -
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside 9780691166872
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28An engaging invitation to rediscover Henry Miller-and to learn how his anarchist sensibility can help us escape "the air-conditioned nightmare" of the modern worldThe American writer Henry Miller's... -
The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia by Philip Lamantia 9780520269729
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.65"The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia" represents the lifework of the most visionary poet of the American postwar generation. Philip Lamantia (1927-2005) played a major role in shaping the poetics... -
The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt 9780199796779
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Beat Generation writers revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and... -
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities John King 9781324105237
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.12Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world-the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films... -
The Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas 9780811221146
Booksplease Price: £32.82The reputation of Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century has not waned in the fifty years since his death. A Welshman with a passion for the English language,... -
Buddhism: The Religion of No-Religion by Alan Watts 9780804856089
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.49"Although Alan Watts' famous voice and happy laughter are missing now, his penetrating vision of Buddhism remains, and his lectures become brilliant prose in book form." -Publishers WeeklyBuddhism:... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love,... -
Zen and the Beat Way: (Zen Teachings of Alan Watts) Alan Watts 9784805317068
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.49"Everything disappears into nothing at all, but out of that same nothing at all come all the new things, forever and ever." -Alan WattsWhen Jack Kerouac wrote his novel Dharma Bums, his views on Zen... -
The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats David Stephen Calonne (Eastern Michigan University) 9781108416450
Booksplease Price: £103.20The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats is the first comprehensive study to explore the role of esoteric, occult, alchemical, shamanistic, mystical and magical traditions in the work of eleven major... -
California the Beautiful by Galen Rowell 9781599620749
Booksplease Price: £15.09As America stands to the rest of the world, so stands California to America - a shining promise of endless possibility. This exquisite celebration of the Golden State has been updated with a new... -
Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale by Paul Yamazaki 9781958846698
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.03Reading the Room is Paul Yamazaki's love letter to the work of bookselling and an engaged life of the mind. Over twenty-four hours, Paul Yamazaki leads us through the stacks of storied City Lights... -
Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac Barry Gifford 9780857867643
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Jack Kerouac died in 1969 at the age of forty-seven . . . Most of his friends survived him. Our idea was to seek them out and talk with them about Jack's life and their own lives. The final result,... -
Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary: Pocket Poets Series No. 27 by Diane di Prima 9780872868793
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Expanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic of eco-feminist-Zen Beat poetry, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals on...