Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021)
Autore di A Coney Island of the Mind
Sull'Autore
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born Lawrence Monsanto Ferling in Yonkers, New York on March 24, 1919. He received a B. A. from the University of North Carolina, a M. A. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D from the Sorbonne. During World War II, he served in the U. S. Naval Reserve and was sent to mostra altro Nagasaki shortly after it was bombed. In 1953, he and Peter Martin began to publish City Lights magazine. They also opened the City Lights Books Shop in San Francisco to help support the magazine. In 1955, they launched City Light Publishing, which became known as the heart of the "Beat" movement. Ferlinghetti is the author of more than thirty books of poetry including Time of Useful Consciousness, Poetry as Insurgent Art, How to Paint Sunlight, A Far Rockaway of the Heart, Over All the Obscene Boundaries: European Poems and Transitions, Who Are We Now?, The Secret Meaning of Things, and A Coney Island of the Mind. He is also the author of more than eight plays and of the novels Love in the Days of Rage and Her. He has translated the work of a number of poets including Nicanor Parra, Jacques Prevert, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. He received the lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle in 2000, the Frost Medal in 2003, and the Literarian Award in 2005, presented for "outstanding service to the American literary community." He was named the first poet laureate of San Francisco in 1998. He writes a weekly column for the San Francisco Chronicle. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) He was uncertain as to the year and place of his birth.
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Opere di Lawrence Ferlinghetti
European Poems and Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries (New Directions Paperback) (1984) 62 copie
Real Conversations. Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Billy Childish: Interviews / No. 1 (2001) 58 copie
I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen… (2015) 30 copie
Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower (1958) 9 copie
Journal for the Protection of All Beings - published by the Whole Earth Catalogue (1961) — A cura di — 8 copie
Poetry Readings in the Cellar 4 copie
Smutna naha jazdkyna 3 copie
At Sea 2 copie
Como eu costumava dizer 2 copie
Lunapark v hlavě 1 copia
City lights review 1 copia
Ascending over Ohio 1 copia
La Vida Como Sueno Real (Traduccion de Eugenio Suarez-Galban Guerra, Con Una Entrevista Con El Poeta) Life as a Real… (1992) 1 copia
Själens Cirkus 1 copia
Onun 1 copia
Antología 1 copia
Unfair Arguments with Existence 1 copia
Hun 1 copia
The Riverside Interviews 2 1 copia
A Political Pamphlet. 1 copia
The Statue of Saint Francis 1 copia
Ferlinghetti. The poet as painter.Dipinti dal 1959 al 1996. Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 17 maggio - 30 giugno 1996 (1996) 1 copia
Ausgewählte Gedichte. Übersetzung und Nachwort von Alexander Schmitz. Deutsche Erstausgabe. (1972) 1 copia
Allen Ginsberg Dying 1 copia
MANIFESTO POPULIST 1 copia
Christ climbed down 1 copia
Tremila formiche rosse 1 copia
Poesie politiche 1 copia
Opere correlate
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Collaboratore — 172 copie
The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Collaboratore — 167 copie
Penguin Modern European Poets : Selections from Paroles (1965) — Translator, Introduction — 47 copie
The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern (1993) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
Some Poems, Poets: Studies in American Underground Poetry since 1945 (1971) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Peace or perish : a crisis anthology — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Bebop Buddhist Ecstasy: Saroyan's Influence on Kerouac and the Beats (2010) — Introduzione — 1 copia
San Francisco poets [sound recording] — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Free passage — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Beatitude 16 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Monsanto
- Altri nomi
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Ferling, Lawrence - Data di nascita
- 1919-03-24
- Data di morte
- 2021-02-22
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Bolinas Cemetery, Bolinas, California, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Yonkers, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- San Francisco, Californië, USA
- Causa della morte
- Interstitial lung disease
- Luogo di residenza
- Yonkers, New York, USA
Strasbourg, France
San Francisco, California, USA - Istruzione
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (B.A. ∙ Journalism ∙ 1941)
Columbia University (M.A. ∙ English ∙ 1948)
Sorbonne, University of Paris (Ph.D ∙ 1951) - Attività lavorative
- teacher
painter
art critic
publisher
bookstore owner - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2003)
United States Navy (WWII)
City Lights Books - Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2003)
Commandeur, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2007)
Literarian Award (2005)
Robert Kirsch Award (2000)
Poet Laureate of San Fransisco (1998-2000)
Author's Guild Lifetime Achievement Award (2003) (mostra tutto 10)
John Ciardi Award (2008)
Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize (declined, 2012)
Premio Taormina (1973)
Frost Medal (2003) - Nota di disambiguazione
- He was uncertain as to the year and place of his birth.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 128
- Opere correlate
- 29
- Utenti
- 5,958
- Popolarità
- #4,145
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 95
- ISBN
- 162
- Lingue
- 14
- Preferito da
- 30
The title poem, "a kind of circus of the soul," in 29 sections, taking its title from a line of Henry Miller's — is something like the Ferlinghetti version of "Howl", a confrontation between the poet's sensibility and the banality of Eisenhower's America. But it's all a lot more playful and literary, full of mischievous echoes of everyone from Wordsworth, Keats and W B Yeats to T S Eliot and James Joyce. Where Ginsberg's lines thump out at you in a merciless rhythm, Ferlinghetti dances down the page in unexpected leaps and pirouettes. And comes to a fabulous conclusion in section 29 where he manages to condense Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, Anna Karenina, Hemingway, Proust and Lorca (and much else) into about 100 breathlessly unpunctuated lines.
"Oral messages" are jazz poems, meant for live performance but still quite effective on the page, again full of clever puns and literary references that you would probably only pick up on a very subliminal level in performance. "Pictures of the gone world" range a little more widely, with a few nods to the lyrical tradition, but still in the light-footed style of "Coney Island".
The typographic design, with its classic underground "typewriter-style" look, is superb — I loved that they even went as far as using freehand underlining for emphasis instead of italics. Freda Browne is credited as the designer, while the cover is by Rudolphe de Harak.… (altro)