The Secret Meaning of Things
Poetry
The Secret Meaning of Things has all the elements of his earlier poetry: lyrical intensity, wit, social concern, satirical bite, and above all a classical claritas. But it goes much further: there is a deepening of vision and a darker understanding of our clay condition. The six long poems in The Secret Meaning of Things show a progressive continuity and clarity of perception that apprehends both the hard reality and luminous irreality in everyday phenomena. In Assassination Raga--on the death of Robert Kennedy--the glass through which the poet sees darkly is the television screen; the poem was first read on the night of RFK's funeral at a ma…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-0045-5
- EAN: 9780811200455
- Produktnummer: 19336037
- Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1968
- Seitenangabe: 60 S.
- Masse: H16.1 cm x B20.2 cm x D0.4 cm 76 g
- Gewicht: 76
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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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