The secret meaning of things / Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New Directions paperbook ; 268.

New Directions paperbook

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance) -- NN-BGC.

Dust jackets (Binding)

Embossed stamps (Provenance) -- NN-BGC.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 48 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 333 Sixth Avenue], [1969]

Summary:

These poems show a progressive continuity and clarity of perception that apprehends both the hard reality and luminous irreality in everyday phenomena.

Contents:

Assassination raga

Bickford's Buddha

All too clearly

Through the looking glass

After the cries of the birds

Moscow in the wilderness, Segovia in the snow.

Notes:

With half-tltle.

"One hundred and fifty copies of this first edition of 'The Secret Meaning of Things' were printed on Curtis Rag paper in March MCMLXIX."

Navy blue boards lettered in gilt on spine. Yellow endpapers.

Poems.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy housed in a slipcase.

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 17 and signed by Ferlinghetti.

Other Format:

Online version: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Secret meaning of things.

ISBN:

0811200450

9780811200455

OCLC:

23401