{"product_id":"americus-book-i-lawrence-ferlinghetti-9780811216418","title":"Americus, Book I","description":"\u003cb\u003eLawrence Ferlinghetti lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. epic, \u003ci\u003eAmericus\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Describing \u003ci\u003eAmericus\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Whitman, W.C. Williams, Charles Olson, and Ezra Pound, as Ferlinghetti cruises our literary and political landscapes, past and present, to create an autobiography of American consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lawrence Ferlinghetti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811216411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811216418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.12w x 0.30d","brand":"Lawrence Ferlinghetti","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44149199929599,"sku":"9780811216418","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c9c31e38-2709-4684-ba0a-30818f73bb59.jpg?v=1688455376","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/americus-book-i-lawrence-ferlinghetti-9780811216418","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}