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A Far Rockaway of the Heart (New Directions Paperbook)
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Product Group: Book
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation (1998-09)
ISBN: 0811213986
EAN: 9780811213981
Dewy Decimal #: 811.54
Paperback: 160 pages
SKU: S070227-1530
Condition: Like New
Comments: Like new book. Like new condition. Ships same day or next in a bubble mailer. Enjoy.
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Product Description
"A Far Rockaway of the Heart" is Ferlinghetti's sequel to "A Coney Island of the Mind," written forty years afterwards in what the author has called "a poetry seizure" that lasted more than a year. A sequence of one hundred and one poems with recurrent themes, it includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as confrontations with major figures in the avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation. This paperbound edition now includes eighteen new poems from Ferlinghetti's "Pictures of the Gone World" which he publishes under his City Lights imprint. A self-styled "stand-up tragedian," Ferlinghetti has been called "the foremost chronicler of our times." If "A Coney Island of the Mind" was a generations vibrant eye-opener, "A Far Rockaway of the Heart" is a wake-up call for a new age.
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Great Bohemian Poetry
Rating  (5)
Date: 2003-03-11
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a great book for exploring the Bohemian poetry movement in the U.S. (namely, San Francisco). Contains the poem, "Autobiography," in which Ferlinghetti misidentifies Mount Rushmore as existing in North Dakota--but as I met him recently at a reading at the U of Minnesota, he was cool about it--knew exactly what I was talking about. . .so maybe he has learned a little since the time he wrote it!
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GREAT!
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-02-17
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
A Far Rockaway of the Heart is Ferlinghetti's most recent anthology of poetry, and it's one of his best. With more than one hundred poems, it's also packed full of passion. I think that after many years of searching, Ferlinghetti finally found his true voice. These poems are sometimes funny, sometimes painful, but always beautifully created and full of life.
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