Pictures of the Gone World (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0872863034
ISBN 13
9780872863033
Category
bibpop
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Pages
45
Description
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.Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Books, author of A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of the Gone World, among numerous other books, has been drawing from life since his student days in Paris where he frequented the Academie Julien and where he did his first oil painting. - from Amzon
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