Pictures Of The Gone World Av Lawrence Ferlinghetti

<p>Lawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author of <em>A Coney Island of the Mind</em>, he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet. He launched City Lights Publishers that year with a five-hundred-copy letterpress edition of <em>Pictures of the Gone World</em>, Number One in the Pocket Poets Series. A classic collection of early work, <em>Pictures</em> includes many of Ferlinghetti's most iconic poems. This limited edition sixtieth anniversary hardcover restores the book to its original selection with the addition of eighteen new verses, and is a must for collectors and fans.</p><p><strong>Lawrence Ferlinghetti </strong>is a poet, painter, and founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.</p>