Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
ix, 96 pages ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : New Directions, 2002.
Summary:
How to Paint Sunlight, now being made available in paperbook format, is graced with a short introduction by the poet in which he says, "All I ever wanted to do was paint light on the walls of life." For more than fifty years Ferlinghetti has been doing just that -- illuminating both the everyday and the unusual, all the while keeping true to his original dictum of speaking in a way accessible to everyone. He has been, and remains, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), and his voice is well known in many places around the world. He was one of the two American poets (the other being John Ashbery) chosen to participate in the second celebration of UNESCO's World of Poetry Day in Delphi, Greece, where he along with his international confreres each poetically addressed the Oracle. His poem for the occasion is now included in this book. How to Paint Sunlight is the fourteenth book of Ferlinghetti's poetry published by New Directions, starting with the ever popular Coney Island of the Mind (1956), its American paperbound edition edging towards a million copies sold.
Contents:
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
To the Oracle at Delphi 92.
Notes:
Reprint. Originally published: c2001.
Includes index.
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 signed by the author.
ISBN:
0811215210
9780811215213
OCLC:
50855110
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