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C.P. Cavafy: Poems by C P Cavafy
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
The Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the taboos of his time surrounding homoerotic desire ...Show more
Front Lines by Jack Hirschman
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Category: No Category | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist, populist, and communist, Hirschman has published over sixty books of his own poetry, and this representative selection is a cross-section of his poetic outpu ...Show more
GASOLINE AND THE VESTAL LADY ON BRATTLE by CORSO GREGORY
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Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series.Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso's individual (therefor ...Show more
Howl & Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams (Introduction by)
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Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series Book 4 | Reading Level: very good
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene. ...Show more
Kaddish and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
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Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Poets
Great strange visionary poems by the author of Howl, "in the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century . . ." In the midst of the broken consciousness of mid-twentieth century suffering anguish of separation from my own body and its natural infinity of feeling its own self one with all ...Show more
Leonard Cohen - Poemsand Songs by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets | Reading Level: very good
This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as "Suzanne", "Sisters of Mercy", "Bird on the Wire", "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "I'm Your Man" and searingly memorable poems from many collections including "Flowers for Hitler", "Beautiful Losers" and "Death of ...Show more
Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara
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Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Poets
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places. Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pond ...Show more
Lunch Poems: 50th Anniversary Edition by Frank O'Hara
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Category: Poetry | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems Lunch Poems, first published in 1964 by City Lights Books as number nineteen in the Pocket Poets series, is widely considered to be Frank O'Hara's freshest and most accomplished collection of poetry. Edited by the poet in collaboration wit ...Show more
Montale - Poems by Eugenio Montale; Jonathan Galassi (Editor, Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS Ser.
Montale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracing light of modern history. Montale's poems teem with allusion ...Show more
PAROLES by Jacques Prevert
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Category: Poetry | Series: Pocket Poets
In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prevert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the Underground, Paroles met with enormous success, and there were severa ...Show more
Pictures of the Gone World by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Category: No Category | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Ser.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author ofA Coney Island of the Mind, he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet. He launched City Lights Publishers that year with a five-hundred-copy letterpress ...Show more
Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
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Category: Poetry | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets | Reading Level: very good
A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-ongwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure who transcends genr ...Show more