These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811212731)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman's voice, including more than fifty pages of new work. The tone has deepened over the years, and he may now be seen as a true maestro in his field. Behind the irresistible air of immediacy and spontaneity lies much erudition and an antic imagination intent on subverting "the dominant paradigm." From his earliest books, including his landmark Coney Island of the Mind, Ferlinghetti has written poetry "in ways that those who see poetry as the province of the few and educated had never imagined. That strength has turned out to be lasting" (Joel Oppenheimer, N. Y. Times Books Review).

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN-10: 0811212734
ISBN-13: 9780811212731
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 10/17/1994
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/26/1994 pg. 59