Love in the Days of Rage is a work of lyricism and commitment, painting and politics, passion and intellect―a work to set beside the great expatriate novels of earlier generations. “The more I make love, the more I want revolution; the more I make revolution, the more I want to make love.” In Paris, in May of 1968, revolution, and love are very much in the air. The barricades are going up, the students of the Sorbonne are taking to streets alive with the graffiti of revolt, and the Odeon is ablaze with speechmaking. For Annie, a young American painter, and Julian, her Portuguese lover, a banker and anarchist, the events of that Paris spring form the backdrop against which their love affair is played. Annie sees the world through an artist's eyes; she is reckless in her passions, wanting and needing love with other people. There is none of this fanciful nonsense for Julian, an anarchist disdainful of the entire human race, who thinks even the enraged students storming the streets of Paris with their posters proclaiming “open the windows of your heart” and “revolution is the ecstasy of history” to be hopelessly naive and sheeplike. Ferlinghetti charts the progress of love unfolding against those heady and momentous days when the pampered children of the bourgeoisie tried to find common cause with workers who despised them, “when Julian and Annie were in the heat of their love and reason.”

Love in the Days Rage

Literature & Fiction

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Contemporary

Bodley Head, London 1988

Starting From San Francisco, first published in 1961, is the third collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry. 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."

Starting from San Francisco

Poetry

New Directions

Endless Life - the Selected Poems 1955-1980

Modern literature, zines, magazines, collections

City Lights Journal Number Four

Nancy J. Peters

City Lights Books

Seven Days in Nicaragua Libre

History & Criticism

Black and white photographs accompanied by Ferlinghetti's poem "Autobiography" celebrate the poet at work, with friends, on the road, and at ease

Ferlinghetti Portrait

Arts & Photography

Christopher Felver

Individual Artists

Gibbs-Smith

A Coney Island of the Mind (Chinese Edition)

Shanghai Translation Publishing House

Świat Hoppera. Wiersze wczesne i późne

Znak

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