Poetry as Insurgent Art

In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one best-selling volume of poetry by any living American poet.


Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 09/17/2007
Pages: 90
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 6.35h x 5.52w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780811217194

About the Author
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: - In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti cofounded City Lights, the first paperback bookstore in the United States, a Mecca for millions. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry by any living American poet. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, Ferlinghetti has received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation.