Wild Dreams of a New Beginning [Paperback]

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1988

Two acclaimed poetry volumes, Who Are We Now? (1976) and Landscapes of Living and Dying (1979), are brought together.

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Review

Adieu A Charlot (second Populist Manifesto)
Alienation: Two Bees
At The Bodega
The Billboard Painters
Clamshell Alliance
Cloning At The Hawk & Dove
Deep Chess
Director Of Alienation
Dissidents, Big Sur
Eight People On A Golf Course And One Bird Of Freedom
An Elegy To Dispel Gloom (assassinations Of Moscone & Milk)
The End Of Various Affairs
The General Song Of Humanity
Great American Waterfront Poem
The Heavy
Highway Patrol
Holiday Inn Blues
Home Home Home
Horses At Dawn
I Am You
Insurgent Mexico
The Jack Of Hearts
Look Homeward, Jack: Two Correspondences
Lost Parents
The Love Nut
The Majesty
Matinal
A Meeting Of Eyes In Mexico
Monet's Lilies Shuddering
The 'moving Waters' Of Gustav Klimt
A Nation Of Sheep
Olbers' Paradox
The Old Italians Dying
The Old Sailors
Overheard Conversations
People Getting Divorced
The Pied Piper Of Iron Mountain
Populist Manifesto
Reading Apollinaire ...
The Recurrent Dream
A River Still To Be Found
Rough Song Of Animals Dying
San Jose Symphony Reception
The Sea And Ourselves At Cape Ann
Seascape With Sun & Eagle
Short Story On A Painting Of Gustav Klimt
Snapshot Epiphany
A Sweet Flying Dream
Two Scavengers In A Truck, Two Beautiful People In Mercedes
Upon Reflection
A Vast Confusion
White On White
Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning
Wild Life Cameo, Early Morn
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 129 pages
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (December 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811210758
• ISBN-13: 978-0811210751
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #994,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Books, author of A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of the Gone World, among numerous other books, has been drawing from life since his student days in Paris where he frequented the Academie Julien and where he did his first oil painting.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kick written warmth exuding joy, June 3, 2000

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Nathan Langston (Portland Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wild Dreams of a New Beginning (Paperback)

Man oh Man oh Man... this book is WORTH the read and probably worth whatever Amazon's asking for it. It's a thrown down literary jump kick and thinking about Ferlingetti as the "Up Beat" is a good way to describe the writing style. Ginsberg liked to scratch along the belly of the humanistic machine but sweet Lawrence writes poetry (the best of which i think this book encapsulates) that swings around the golden side of our existance. i borrowed this book for awhile and would wake up and read a bit of it and everything became a little clearer, a little sweeter and little bit more tantalizingly beautiful. this book has the potential to make you hungrier for things and is an easy read in terms of poetry. Oh man oh man oh man...