Poetry as Insurgent Art

Name: Poetry as Insurgent Art
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ISBN: 9780811217194

ISBN-10: 0811217191

ISBN-13: 9780811217194

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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After a lifetime, this (r)evolutionary little book is still a work-in-progress, the poet'sars poetica, to which at 88 he is constantly adding. From the groundbreaking (and betselling)A Coney Island of the Mindin 1958 to the "personal epic" ofAmericus, Book Iin 2003, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has, in more than thirty books, been the poetic conscience of America. Now inPoetry As Insurgent Art, he offers, in prose, his primer of what poetry is, could be, should be. The result is by turns tender and furious, personal and political. If you are a reader of poetry, find out what is missing from the usual fare you are served; if you are a poet, read at your own riskyou will never again look at your…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 9/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 90
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English



Poetry as insurgent art


What is poetry?


Forethoughts


Populist Manifesto #1 (1976)


Populist Manifesto #2 (1978)


Modern Poetry is Prose (1978)


Bibliographical note