Americus. Book I / by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American--Poetry.

National characteristics, American.

United States--Poetry.

United States.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3)

Physical Description:

90 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Title on dust jacket: Americus I

Americus

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New Directions Books, 2004.

Summary:

Lawrence Ferlinghetti lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. epic, "Americus." Describing "Americus" as "part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epic--a descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true fiction, lyric and political," Ferlinghetti combines "universal texts, snatches of song, words or phrases, murmuring of love or hate, from Lotte Lenya to the latest soul singer, sayings and shibboleths from Yogi Berra to the National Anthem, the Gettysburg Address or the Ginsberg Address, that haunt our nocturnal imagination." This book is a wake-up call that breaks new ground in the grand tradition of Whitman, W.C. Williams, Charles Olson, and Ezra Pound, as Ferlinghetti cruises our literary and political landscapes, past and present, to create an autobiography of American consciousness.

Contents:

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

Notes.

Notes:

A poem.

"A New Directions book".

No more published.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 85-90).

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-3 have dustjackets retained.

ISBN:

9780811215787

0811215784

9780811216418

0811216411

OCLC:

54001399