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Poetry As Insurgent Art

Poetry

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The great radical primer.

Since publishing A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been the poetic conscience of America. Now in Poetry as Insurgent Art, he offers a primer, in prose, of what poetry is, could be, and should be. If you read poetry, find out what is missing from the usual fare you are served; if you are a poet, read at your own risk––you will never again look at your role in the same way.

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Contemporary American poet novelist, playwright, publisher, critic, social activist, visual artist and founder of City Lights Books

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Publication Date: September 1, 2007

Cloth $13.95
CN 0.00
96 pages
ISBN 9780811217194

trim size: 4x6

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New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."