Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.

This critical study of Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti examines his political engagement, his work as a dramatist and prose writer, his conception of the poet,

Ferlinghetti has been telling the truth in poems for more than four decades, and every indication is that he will continue to be heard when all the pretenders h

What is Poetry? is the closest he has come to formulating an ars poetica. It is an on-going project which he is constantly revising and expanding. The present v