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Author:	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Format:	--
Publisher:	New Directions	ISBN-10:	0811213471
ISBN-13:	9780811213479	Educational Level:	--
Product Type:	--	Publication Year:	--
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Condition:	Brand New

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Synopsis
A companion piece to "A Coney Island of the Mind", this volume continues Ferlinghetti's themes of love, light, art, history, and the American landscape.
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Length:	124 pages
Height:	8.5 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
Thickness:	0.5 in.
Weight:	11.2 oz.

Publisher's Note
A sequel to A Coney Island of the Mind (written forty years after the original in what the author has called "a poetry seizure" that lasted more than a year), A Far Rockaway of the Heart is a sequence of one hundred and one related poems with recurrent themes. The author also thinks of it as a kind of caustic critique of modern poetry, including confrontations with or parodies of major figures in the literary avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation, notably Pound and Eliot, Beckett and Joyce.
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Nearly four decades after the publication of A Coney Island of the Mind, Ferlinghetti offers this companion, a bardic, blasphemous and somewhat blissed-out wake-up call for 20th-century America to find its lost soul. One of the iconoclastic survivors of the Beat generation, Ferlinghetti, who is approaching his 80th birthday, serves up his first collection of new poems since 1988's Wild Dreams of a New Beginning. These 101 numbered poems, most occupying a single page, burn through modern America's absurdities and unrepentant historical revision in a glorious rant against mediocrity, greed, capitalism and boring poetry, with serious riffs on painting and love. Ferlinghetti blasts the "defeated Romanticism/ of T.S. Eliot/ and his pathetic phallusies" claiming Whitman and Neruda Blake would work, too as his ancestors. Staggered lines and unfettered associations serve to bypass the cerebral ("It is not the mind that hears it/ but an ear of what we call the soul") while insisting that poetry maintain its political and social missions as well: "But I still hear singing/ still the voices of poets/ mixed with the cry of prostitutes...." Dubbing himself a "stand-up tragedian," Ferlinghetti's commanding voice draws on humor and the everyday (in poem Lopate As the title of this volume suggests, Ferlinghetti writes today with 1958 in mind. Unfortunately, 40 years does make a difference in poetic as well as political sensibility. What was revolutionary in the Eisenhower era is not so fresh today. The poet will use the word 'postmodern,' for example, in three separate instances, almost as if to suggest that he is supposed to be, in some way, articulating a postmodern poetic vision. . . . One of the pleasures of this book, however, is the vivid reminder of a generation (or two) of American poets; Ferlinghetti cites, echoes and quotes with ease of range of poets--William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, Walt Whitman, [and] T.S. Eliot. Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company. Ingebretsen Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who is best known for the lyric protest poetry of A Coney Island of the Mind, published nearly forty years ago, has written a sequel. . . . Together these books convey an overall sense of Ferlinghetti's mission in twentieth century American poetry: to settle the public realm with the mind and heart. . . . From A Coney Island of the Mind to A Far Rockaway of the Heart, intuition appears the primary source of Ferlinghetti's inspiration. It is productive, for the reader familiar with Jung's theory of types, to apply broad insights about the 'big picture' intuitive type to this poet whose first book was entitled Pictures of a Gone World (1955). For intuition, it seems, is always situating Ferlinghetti in a big picture. Perhaps it is through intuition that he can incorporate the mind and heart in a populist poetic statement. Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company. Warren

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0811213471
Title : A Far Rockaway of the Heart
EAN : 9780811213479
Authors : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corpor
Publication Date : 1997-05
Pages : 124
List Price (MSRP) : 21.95
Height : 0.6200 inches
Width : 5.6400 inches
Length : 8.3800 inches
Weight : 0.7000 pounds
Keywords : Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, United States, General AAS, General, 20th Century, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : New

Description: Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. SIGNED by the author on the titile page. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.

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