San Francisco Poems

San Francisco Poems

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Publisher: City Lights Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781931404013

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Poems about the City by the Bay by its first official Poet Laureate.


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Download or read book San Francisco Poems written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems about the City by the Bay by its first official Poet Laureate.


Poeta en San Francisco

Poeta en San Francisco

Author: Barbara Jane Reyes

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize for a second book of poetry in the United States. Although Reyes' first book was not as widely known as the first book of many of the other eligible poets, the judges nevertheless courageously chose this risky, radical, and deserving second book put out by an energetic but very small publisher. Reyes received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Filipino American literary publication Maganda. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first book, Gravities of Center, was published by Arkipelago Books (SF) in 2003.


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Download or read book Poeta en San Francisco written by Barbara Jane Reyes and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Asian American Studies. POETA EN SAN FRANCISCO is the winner of the highly prestigious James Laughlin Award for 2005, awarded annually from the Academy of American Poetry and the only prize for a second book of poetry in the United States. Although Reyes' first book was not as widely known as the first book of many of the other eligible poets, the judges nevertheless courageously chose this risky, radical, and deserving second book put out by an energetic but very small publisher. Reyes received her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Filipino American literary publication Maganda. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first book, Gravities of Center, was published by Arkipelago Books (SF) in 2003.


Huge Dreams

Huge Dreams

Author: Michael McClure

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1999-05-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0140589171

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Huge Dreams republishes two books, out of print for thirty years, which together are a cornerstone of the Beat movement: The New Book/A Book of Torture and Star. Both were influential in expanding poetry into a larger world:the West Coast Beat phenomena, which focused on nature, the environment, antiwar activities, individual anarchism, Zen Buddhism, jazz, and a kind of romantic mystical thought. With these books Michael McClure brought an animal energy and a knowledge of art and physical human nature that was new to the scene. The New Book/A Book of Torture was written spontaneously while McClure was in a "dark night of the soul" brought on by psychedelics. A single long poem of experience and exploration, it offers the means of liberation from the darkness it examines. Star is a wide-ranging book of chalice seeking, spiritual discovery, and political protest, grounded in the emotions and sensations of eros and play.


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Download or read book Huge Dreams written by Michael McClure and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huge Dreams republishes two books, out of print for thirty years, which together are a cornerstone of the Beat movement: The New Book/A Book of Torture and Star. Both were influential in expanding poetry into a larger world:the West Coast Beat phenomena, which focused on nature, the environment, antiwar activities, individual anarchism, Zen Buddhism, jazz, and a kind of romantic mystical thought. With these books Michael McClure brought an animal energy and a knowledge of art and physical human nature that was new to the scene. The New Book/A Book of Torture was written spontaneously while McClure was in a "dark night of the soul" brought on by psychedelics. A single long poem of experience and exploration, it offers the means of liberation from the darkness it examines. Star is a wide-ranging book of chalice seeking, spiritual discovery, and political protest, grounded in the emotions and sensations of eros and play.


San Francisco Beat

San Francisco Beat

Author: David Meltzer

Publisher: City Lights Books

Published: 2021-10-20

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0872868656

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San Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual and artistic adventure. In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, and about anarchism, globalism, Zen, the Bomb, the Kabbalah and the Internet. Diane di Prima, William Everson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman, Joanne Kyger, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Jack Micheline, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen " . . . as we begin to slip into a national slumber somewhat akin to that of the Eisenhower years, it’s exhilarating to have this squall line of Beats pass through our consciousness."—Kirkus Reviews " . . . fierce engagement executed with humor and vernacular sensitivity."—Dale Smith, Austin Chronicle David Meltzer (1937-2016) was the author of many books of poetry, including Tens, The Name, Arrows: Selected Poetry 1957-1992 and Two-Way Mirror (City Lights). He was the editor of Birth, The Secret Garden, Reading Jazz and Writing Jazz, among other collections. His agit-smut fictions include The Agency Trilogy. Meltzer read poetry at the Jazz Cellar in the 1950s and in the 1960s fronted the band, "Serpent Power."


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Download or read book San Francisco Beat written by David Meltzer and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America, somnolent, conformist and paranoid in the 1950s, was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and enterprise, opting instead for a life of personal, spiritual and artistic adventure. In these intimate, free-wheeling conversations, a baker's dozen of the poets of San Francisco talk about the scene then and now, the traditions of poetry, and about anarchism, globalism, Zen, the Bomb, the Kabbalah and the Internet. Diane di Prima, William Everson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Hirschman, Joanne Kyger, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Jack Micheline, Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen " . . . as we begin to slip into a national slumber somewhat akin to that of the Eisenhower years, it’s exhilarating to have this squall line of Beats pass through our consciousness."—Kirkus Reviews " . . . fierce engagement executed with humor and vernacular sensitivity."—Dale Smith, Austin Chronicle David Meltzer (1937-2016) was the author of many books of poetry, including Tens, The Name, Arrows: Selected Poetry 1957-1992 and Two-Way Mirror (City Lights). He was the editor of Birth, The Secret Garden, Reading Jazz and Writing Jazz, among other collections. His agit-smut fictions include The Agency Trilogy. Meltzer read poetry at the Jazz Cellar in the 1950s and in the 1960s fronted the band, "Serpent Power."


Starting from San Francisco

Starting from San Francisco

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780811200462

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Starting From San Francisco, first published in 1961, was the third collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poetry. His Coney Island Of the Mind (1958), on its way to selling a million copies and one of the bestselling books of contemporary American poetry, has been translated into many different foreign languages.


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Download or read book Starting from San Francisco written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1967 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting From San Francisco, first published in 1961, was the third collection of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poetry. His Coney Island Of the Mind (1958), on its way to selling a million copies and one of the bestselling books of contemporary American poetry, has been translated into many different foreign languages.


The God of San Francisco

The God of San Francisco

Author: James J. Siegel

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9781943977819

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In The God of San Francisco, James J. Siegel examines queer grief during the onset of the AIDS crisis through a lavender-and-leather pantheon: St. Christopher, Allah, and the God of San Francisco transubstantiate a sarcoma's cicatrix into sequins, a viral dowry into a benevolent plume of dazzling feathers. From Laramie, Wyoming, to Toledo, Ohio, Siegel performs a magisterial frilling of historical attention, always emerging as "an extraordinary conflagration. A beautiful immolation." At once an elegiac columbarium and search-and-rescue map for future bliss, The God of San Francisco trills from the Castro Funeral Home to North Beach and back, surmising death as something honeyed and lissome, "eulogies eulogized." Desire masquerades as "a raven gliding / on the backdrop of midnight" and "Jesus in fishnets, / crossdressing his way through Nazareth," and desire cedes each poem's boy, spectral or otherwise, a warm hand, green grass, "the sun's rays on our skin."


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Download or read book The God of San Francisco written by James J. Siegel and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The God of San Francisco, James J. Siegel examines queer grief during the onset of the AIDS crisis through a lavender-and-leather pantheon: St. Christopher, Allah, and the God of San Francisco transubstantiate a sarcoma's cicatrix into sequins, a viral dowry into a benevolent plume of dazzling feathers. From Laramie, Wyoming, to Toledo, Ohio, Siegel performs a magisterial frilling of historical attention, always emerging as "an extraordinary conflagration. A beautiful immolation." At once an elegiac columbarium and search-and-rescue map for future bliss, The God of San Francisco trills from the Castro Funeral Home to North Beach and back, surmising death as something honeyed and lissome, "eulogies eulogized." Desire masquerades as "a raven gliding / on the backdrop of midnight" and "Jesus in fishnets, / crossdressing his way through Nazareth," and desire cedes each poem's boy, spectral or otherwise, a warm hand, green grass, "the sun's rays on our skin."


New American Underground Poetry, Vol 1

New American Underground Poetry, Vol 1

Author: David Lerner

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 141205270X

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Flagship poetry anthology defining and presenting the underground Babarian genre and social movement in America.


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Download or read book New American Underground Poetry, Vol 1 written by David Lerner and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flagship poetry anthology defining and presenting the underground Babarian genre and social movement in America.


Stray Poems

Stray Poems

Author: Alejandro Murgu’a

Publisher: City Lights Publishers

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1931404135

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COMING SOON! San Francisco's first Latino poet laureate offers new poems written in the native tongue of contemporary America: English-and-Spanish.ALERT ME WHEN THE BOOK BECOMES AVAILABLE


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Download or read book Stray Poems written by Alejandro Murgu’a and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COMING SOON! San Francisco's first Latino poet laureate offers new poems written in the native tongue of contemporary America: English-and-Spanish.ALERT ME WHEN THE BOOK BECOMES AVAILABLE


Fog and Light: San Francisco Through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here

Fog and Light: San Francisco Through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here

Author: Diane Frank

Publisher: Blue Light Press

Published: 2021-03-17

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9781421836898

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Fog and Light San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here Selected by Diane Frank In this collection of poems, we show you the city that most tourists miss - dancing the samba at Carnaval in the Mission District, the Golden Gate Bridge at dawn with the perfect angle of light, the timpani of Pacific waves in the Outer Sunset, a cappuccino before work on Minna Alley, Bird & Beckett Bookstore in Glen Park, the dog path at Fort Funston, walking home through the Civic Center in Sunday heat, the clatter inside a flat on Nob Hill by the cable car tracks, ushering at the San Francisco Opera, an inside view of the Summer of Love, the Sing It Yourself Messiah with the Golden Gate Symphony, eight-year-old friends in Bayview careening down their street on a board attached to a roller skate, the Doggie Diner, a night game at Candlestick Park, the Alemany Farmer's Market, the lively street scene at 16th and Valencia, riding the N Judah street car with two cellos to play Mahler at the Herbst Theatre on Bay to Breakers Sunday - and so much more.


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Download or read book Fog and Light: San Francisco Through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here written by Diane Frank and published by Blue Light Press. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fog and Light San Francisco through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here Selected by Diane Frank In this collection of poems, we show you the city that most tourists miss - dancing the samba at Carnaval in the Mission District, the Golden Gate Bridge at dawn with the perfect angle of light, the timpani of Pacific waves in the Outer Sunset, a cappuccino before work on Minna Alley, Bird & Beckett Bookstore in Glen Park, the dog path at Fort Funston, walking home through the Civic Center in Sunday heat, the clatter inside a flat on Nob Hill by the cable car tracks, ushering at the San Francisco Opera, an inside view of the Summer of Love, the Sing It Yourself Messiah with the Golden Gate Symphony, eight-year-old friends in Bayview careening down their street on a board attached to a roller skate, the Doggie Diner, a night game at Candlestick Park, the Alemany Farmer's Market, the lively street scene at 16th and Valencia, riding the N Judah street car with two cellos to play Mahler at the Herbst Theatre on Bay to Breakers Sunday - and so much more.


A Coney Island of the Mind

A Coney Island of the Mind

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 1958

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780811200417

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Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.


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Download or read book A Coney Island of the Mind written by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1958 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.