In less than a year, Lawrence Ferlinghetti won a lifetime achievement award from the Author's Guild, received the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and celebrated the 50th anniversary of his renowned City Lights Bookstore. Now, instead of resting on these many laurels, the elder statesman of American poetry "lights out for the territories" with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. narrative, Americus. Describing his work as "part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epic....a descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true fiction, lyric and political...," Ferlinghetti merges "certain universal texts, snatches of song, words or phrases, murmuring of love or hate, from Lotte Lenya to the latest soul singer, sayings and shibboleths from Yogi Berra to the National Anthem and the Gettysburg Address or the Ginsberg Address, that haunt our nocturnal imagination...." This sit-up-and-take-notice work breaks new ground in the grand tradition of Whitman, Williams, Olson and Pound, as Ferlinghetti stalks our literary and political landscapes, past and present, to articulate the unique voice of America and create an autobiography of our collective American consciousness. Born to Italian parents in Yonkers, New York in 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti served in the navy during WWII and received degrees from the U. of North Carolina, Columbia and the Sorbonne in Paris. Since 1953 he has been the owner and publisher of City Lights Books in San Francisco.
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The world-famous poet (A Coney Island of the Mind) and founder of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore and press tackles more material than ever in this first volume of verse since How to Paint Sunlight (2001). Twelve untitled sections packed with quotations and references seek, and in part arrive at, an inclusive history of America, from the startings out of its first poets to the hope and peril ...
More of the early 1960s. Calling America "the greatest experiment on earth" but warning against "Bush League Presidencies/ in totalitarian plutocracies," Ferlinghetti goes on to praise his heroes and models, "Whitman's wild children and grandchildren," from Vachel Lindsay to Ginsberg and beyond. A multi-page verse-essay on the art of poetry argues that "A poem should still be an insurgent knock on the door of the unknown." Later sections knock on the doors of various moments in modern Western history-the Wright brothers, the Kennedy assassination, German Expressionism, the Brooklyn Dodgers. Both world wars come in for extended treatment: "No end to the sweet births of consciousness to the bitter deaths of it in vain." Ferlinghetti's exuberant, loquacious catalogues and collages try to rival previous encyclopedic and historical poems, from Eliot, Pound and Olson (all of whom he cites repeatedly) to Neruda and Paulin. This an ambitious effort, but one marked with a lack of subtlety, and an overdependence on its famous models. (Apr.)
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