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The Beat Goes On: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Is Still a Rebel

Notes and Links for Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Victor Infante

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Pictures of the Gone World CD/DVD, by Lawrence FerlinghettiSynergy Entertainment

Victor’s postscript to the Ferlinghetti interview: I have since read A Far Rockaway of the Heart. It’s a damn good book....

To read or hear more of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s work on line:

Books and recordings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti:

  • Poetry As Insurgent Art (aphorisms and an essay on the nature of poetry, New Directions, 2007)
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  • Americus, Book I (miscellany of poems, verse essays, catalogues and collages, New Directions, 2005)
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  • Pictures of the Gone World (audio CD/DVD, Synergy Entertainment, 2005)
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  • Life Studies, Life Stories (drawings, City Lights Publishers, 2003)
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  • San Francisco Poems (poems, City Lights Books, 2002)
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  • How To Paint Sunlight: Lyric Poems & Others, 1997 - 2000 (poems, New Directions, 2001)
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  • Love in the Days of Rage (novel, Overlook Press, 2001)
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  • A Far Rockaway of the Heart (poems, New Directions, 1998)
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  • These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955 - 1993 (poems, New Directions, 1993)
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  • European Poems and Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries (poems, New Directions, 1988)
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  • Wild Dreams of a New Beginning (poems, New Directions, 1988 — includes two previously published collections: Who are we now?, 1976 and Landscapes of living & dying, 1979)
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  • The Secret Meaning of Things (poems, New Directions, 1968)
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  • Starting from San Francisco (poems, New Directions, original publication 1961, reissue 1969)
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  • Her (novel, New Directions, 1960)
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  • A Coney Island of the Mind (poems, New Directions Paperback No. 74, original publication 1958, reissue 1974)
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  • Pictures of the Gone World (poems, City Lights Books Pocket Poets No. 1, original publication 1955, reissue 1995)
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About Victor Infante:

Victor Infante was our Orange County Museletter correspondent until 2001, when he moved back to Worcester, Massachusetts and then became our New England correspondent. His collection of poems, Learning To Speak, was released by FarStarFire Press in 1999. His other feature articles for About Poetry are:

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