Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from its Beginnings to the Present Day

First edition. Hundreds of illustrations. Jacket has piece missing at bottom of spine. xi, 254 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..

Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from Its Beginnings to the Present Day

FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE

and Peters, Nancy J.

City Lights Books/Harper & Row

LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO surveys, in photographs and incisive commentary, the literary greats and eccentric dreamers who lived in or left their mark on the city. Here is the full sweep of its literary history, from the California Indian oral tradition and the brawling frontier, thought the insurgent counterculture, to today's continuing San Francisco renaissance. The authors distill the essence of San Francisco's literary life and its relation to the larger American scene. CONTENTS: Intro * Part One: Beginnings (Costanoan Indians through 1910) * Part Two: The 20th Century * Afterword

Nancy J. Peters

City Lights Books

From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament -- part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-inflected torrent of language and feeling, and all magical. "A volcanic explosion of personal memories, political rants, social commentary, environmental jeremiads and cultural analysis all tangled together in one breathless sentence that would make James Joyce proud. . ." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post In this unapologetically unclassifiable work Lawrence Ferlinghetti lets loose an exhilarating rush of language to craft what might be termed a closing statement about his highly significant and productive 99 years on this planet. The "Little Boy" of the title is Ferlinghetti himself as a child, shuffled from his overburdened mother to his French aunt to foster childhood with a rich Bronxville family. Service in World War Two (including the D-Day landing), graduate work, and a scholar gypsy's vagabond life in Paris followed. These biographical reminiscences are interweaved with Allen Ginsberg-esque high energy bursts of raw emotion, rumination, reflection, reminiscence and prognostication on what we may face as a species on Planet Earth in the future. Little Boy is a magical font of literary lore with allusions galore, a final repository of hard-earned and durable wisdom, a compositional high wire act without a net (or all that much punctuation) and just a gas and an inspiration to read.

Little Boy: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

DOUBLEDAY

In 1968 a painter from Manhattan's Lower East Side meets an anarchist banker in Paris; the students of Paris find the voice of their anger while a man and woman fall in love

Love in the Days of Rage

E.P.Dutton

In 1968 a painter from Manhattan's Lower East Side meets an anarchist banker in Paris; the students of Paris find the voice of their anger while a man and woman fall in love

Dutton

From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament -- part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-inflected torrent of language and feeling, and all magical.\n"A volcanic explosion of personal memories, political rants, social commentary, environmental jeremiads and cultural analysis all tangled together in one breathless sentence that would make James Joyce proud. . ." 
—Ron Charles, The Washington Post\nIn this unapologetically unclassifiable work Lawrence Ferlinghetti lets loose an exhilarating rush of language to craft what might be termed a closing statement about his highly significant and productive 99 years on this planet. The "Little Boy" of the title is Ferlinghetti himself as a child, shuffled from his overburdened mother to his French aunt to foster childhood with a rich Bronxville family. Service in World War Two (including the D-Day landing), graduate work, and a scholar gypsy's vagabond life in Paris followed. These biographical reminiscences are interweaved with Allen Ginsberg-esque high energy bursts of raw emotion, rumination, reflection, reminiscence and prognostication on what we may face as a species on Planet Earth in the future. Little Boy is a magical font of literary lore with allusions galore, a final repository of hard-earned and durable wisdom, a compositional high wire act without a net (or all that much punctuation) and just a gas and an inspiration to read.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Little Boy

Biographies & Memoirs

Faber&Faber

'A brave man and a brave poet.' Bob Dylan\n'Utterly extraordinary.' Guardian\n'A torrent of textual splendor.' Los Angeles Times\nFrom growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Parisian cafes, to befriending America's greatest counter-cultural writers, Little Boy has seen it all.\nThis is the story of one man's extraordinary life - a story steeped in the exhilarating energy of the Beats. It is a novel serving as the literary last will and testament of the iconic publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti: a meditation on his one hundred years on the planet, rich in wisdom, emotion and memories.

Open Eye, Open Heart

New Directions

Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind has become a modern classic. It has been translated into nine languages and there are now three-quarters of a million copies in print. The 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 if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul.

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems

Poetry

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Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from Its Beginnings to the Present Day

Literary San Francisco: A Pictorial History from its Beginnings to the Present Day

Little Boy: A Novel

Love in the Days of Rage

Love in the Days of Rage

Little Boy: A Novel

Little Boy

Little Boy

Open Eye, Open Heart

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems