How to paint sunlight : lyric poems & others (1997-2000) / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

ix, 94 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, 2001.

Summary:

A new collection of poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a poet who writes to illuminate the everyday and the unusual, making him "one of our ageless radicals and true bards".--"Booklist".

Contents:

A Word ix

How to Paint Sunlight 1

Instructions to Painters & Poets 3

The Changing Light 8

Yachts in Sun 9

White Dreams 10

Big Sur Light 12

Dictionaries of Light 18

Surreal Migrations 19

New York, New York 31

The Light of Birds 33

Journal Notes Turning into a Poem 34

Manhattan Mama 38

Library Scene, Manhattan 40

Natural History 42

Spring about to Happen 44

Dirty Tongue 45

Blood of the Big Lady 47

The Scream Heard around the World 48

First, the News 50

Are There Not Still Fireflies 54

Into the Interior 57

Don't Cry for Me Indiana 59

Between Two Cities 62

The Freights 63

Appearances of the Angel in Ohio 66

Overheard Conversations 70

Moored 71

Drinking French Wine in Middle America 72

Apollinaire in America 74

Into the Interior 75

Allen Ginsberg Dying 76

Allen This Instant 79

Allen Still 81

Blind Poet 82

Mouth 85

A Tourist of Revolutions 88

And Lo 90.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

081121463X

OCLC:

45556169