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Starting from San Francisco - Poetry (Paperback, Revised edition)
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Starting from San Francisco - Poetry (Paperback, Revised edition)
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The long poems of Starting From San Francisco present a new,
quieter, more profound aspect of the poet. His original lyricism
and caustic humor have been confronted, as it were, with the real
presence of evil and death. "Starting from Paumanok... I strike up
for a New World" wrote Walt Whitman in 1860. Starting from San
Francisco, a hundred years later, Ferlinghetti roved back across
the country (this "cradle we rocked out of") then turned south of
the border to visionary conclusions in that lost horizon symbolized
by Machu Picchu, the Inca city the Spaniards never found. These
poems of voyage are autobiographical in that they grew out of
Ferlinghetti’s travels in South America and Europe, but there are
also poems on other themes, including several long "broadsides,"
which the author identifies as "satirical tirades––poetry
admittedly corrupted by the political, itself irradiated by the
Thing it attacks." Commenting on this paperbook edition, to which
two important poems, "Berlin" and "The Situation in The West" have
been added, Ferlinghetti wrote: "These poems represent to me a kind
of halfway house in the ascent of a mountain I hardly knew existed
until I stopped and looked back at the flatlands below. Like a Zen
fool lost in the woods who laughs and lies face down on the earth
to find his way."
General
Imprint: |
New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
1967 |
First published: |
1967 |
Authors: |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Dimensions: |
203 x 132 x 5mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
64 |
Edition: |
Revised edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8112-0046-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8112-0046-9 |
Barcode: |
9780811200462 |
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