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

Subjects (All):

• American poetry--20th century.
• American poetry.
• Poetry, Modern--20th century.
• Poetry, Modern.

Penn Provenance:

• 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