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54:, a photograph of which is shown on the cover. The poetry mingles tenderness with satire and hallucination. Scattered through the book is some of the better poetry generated by the San Francisco School. The poems are longer and more sustained than in his previous publications. They are more concerned with ideas than with verbal glitter, singing out boldly with great clarity. 82:
dragon "… represents 'the force and mystery of life,' the true sight that 'sees the spiritual everywhere translucent in the material world.'" Perhaps what Ferlinghetti wants his reader to do is to see the jazz music and the everyday images and the repetitive references to common culture found in his poems; and then see beyond them to "the spiritual everywhere translucent."
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Perhaps the best known of the poems is "The Great Chinese Dragon", although one critic says that the Remedial-English style of this poem makes one doubt that Ferlinghetti would ever be able to write poetry again. Gregory Stephenson, incorporating quotes from "The Great Chinese Dragon", says the
19: 39:, his third collection and fourth book, published in 1961. The hardcover edition included a short vinyl recording of Ferlinghetti reading some of his poems. The title is a reference to 280: 265: 275: 99: 47:": Ferlinghetti numbered himself among Whitman's "wild children", and Whitman's influence is shown throughout the work. 230: 260: 150: 23: 36: 50:
The poems are based mainly on a journey across the United States and a meditation on the Inca city of
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Robert L. Stilwell (Spring 1963). "Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Starting from San Francisco".
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Index


New Directions
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Walt Whitman
Machu Picchu
ISBN
0-8112-0046-9
"Underwear by Lawrence Ferlinghetti"
"A Second Coming"
Contemporary Poetry Review



JSTOR
40117758
"Books in Brief"
"Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (Vol. 111) - Introduction"
Categories
1961 poetry books
American poetry collections
Beat poetry
Culture of San Francisco
New Directions Publishing books

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