Time of Useful Consciousness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811220316)

New Directions is proud to announce a riveting and galvanizing new book by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. At ninety-three, he shows more power than most any other poet at work today. Ferlinghetti describes his new book, Time of Useful Consciousness, as "a fragmented recording of the American stream-of-consciousness, always westward streaming; a people's poetic history in the tradition of William Carlos Williams' Paterson, Charles Olson's Maximus, Allen Ginsberg's Fall of America, and Ed Sanders' America: a History in Verse. 'Time of Useful Consciousness, is an aeronautical term denoting the time between when one loses oxygen and when one passes out, the brief time in which some life-saving action is possible."Ferlinghetti's first book since Poetry as Insurgent Art, the fierce and immediate Time of Useful Consciousness presents poetry written "in ways that those who see poetry as the province of the few and educated had never imagined" (The New York Times Book Review).

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN-10: 0811220311
ISBN-13: 9780811220316
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2012
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/2012 pg. 14
Library Journal 09/15/2012 pg. 74