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City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology
60th Anniversary Edition
Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series
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Ideal for readers interested in modern poetry, the Beat Generation, and cultural history, as well as collectors and fans of avant-garde literature.
A comprehensive selection from Ferlinghetti's famed City Lights Pocket Poets Series, published on the 60th anniversary of its founding.
Galleys available upon request PRINT CAMPAIGN: SF Chronicle, SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, 7x7, San Francisco Magazine, Bookforum, New York Review of Books, Boston Review, Bloomsbury Review, Brooklyn Rail, Poetry Flash, Poets and Writers, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, LA Times, NY Times, The Nation, New Yorker, Newsday, Vanity Fair, Esquire, St Marks Poetry Project, Advocate, Bay Area Reporter, Out, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Beat Scene Magazine, among others. We'll send to the trades: PW, Booklist, Kirkus and Library Journal. SOCIAL MEDIA AND ONLINE CAMPAIGN: Daily Beast, Boing Boing, Reality Sandwich, Rumpus, BOMB, Constant Critic, Conversational Reading, Poetry Daily, thepoetry.com, Poetry Foundation (Harriet), Poetry Society of America, Identity Theory, NYer's Book Bench, Bookslut, and Shelf Awareness, Literary Kicks, Beat Review, Dharma Beat, Kerouac Project, Daily Beat, ThirdMindBooks, The Volta, NY School Poets Blog, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Library Thing, Wikipedia . . . Promotion through: allenginsberg.org and other writers websites who are included in the edition. Promotion via City Lights social media: City Lights Blog, CL Facebook (26K likes), CL Twitter (57K followers), CL Instagram (1500 followers), CL Tumblr (1000 followers), CL Pinterest (1000 followers)
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"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 Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of the Gone World—and within a year, he had brought out two more volumes, translations by Kenneth Rexroth and then, poems by Kenneth Patchen. But it was the success and scandal of Number Four, Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1956), that put City Lights on the map, positioning the Pocket Poets Series at the forefront of the literary counterculture.
A landmark sixtieth retrospective celebrating 60 years of publishing and cultural history, this edition provides an invaluable distillation of the energetic, iconoclastic and still fresh body of work represented in the ongoing series. Ferlinghetti has selected a handful of poems from each of the sixty volumes, including the work of Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, Pasolini, Voznesensky, Prevert, Mayakovsky, Cortázar, O'Hara, Ponsot, Levertov, di Prima, Duncan, Lamantia, Lowry, and more, all of the Pocket Poets Series' innovative, influential, and often ground-breaking American and international poets.
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Times Literary Supplement calls it "a book you can’t help but cherish." John Tytell of the Los Angeles Review of Books praises the anthology as a testament to the enduring avant-garde tradition, noting its role in publishing seminal works such as Ginsberg's Howl and Ferlinghetti's own A Coney Island of the Mind. The 60th Anniversary Edition is lauded for keeping the series vibrant and vital, offering both familiar Beat poets and other luminaries in a dynamic collection.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780872866799
Publisher: City Lights Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 13 August 2015
Country: United States
Imprint: City Lights Books
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 152.0mm
Weight: 354g
Pages: 306
About the Author
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers, is the author of A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of the Gone World, among numerous other books, and the publisher of the famed Pocket Poets Series, among many other titles at his City Lights press.
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