Americus
Lawrence Ferlinghetti lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. epic, Americus.Describing Americus as part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epica descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true fiction, lyric and political, Ferlinghetti combines universal texts, snatches of song, words or phrases, murmuring of love or hate, from Lotte Lenya to the latest soul singer, sayings and shibboleths from Yogi Berra to the National Anthem, the Gettysburg Address or the Ginsberg Address, that haunt our nocturnal imagination. This book is a wake-up call that breaks new ground in the grand tradition of Wh…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1641-8
- EAN: 9780811216418
- Produktnummer: 1339149
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 90 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.0 cm 157 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 01
- Gewicht: 157
Über den Autor
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.
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