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  • Paperback
  • Nov.24.1960
  • 9780811200424
  • New Directions

Lawrence gives an overview of the book:

“A surreal semi-autobiographical blackbook record of a semi-mad period of my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh madonnas with spiritual ones.” This is how the author describes this extraordinary expatriate novel.
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“A surreal semi-autobiographical blackbook record of a semi-mad period of my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh madonnas with spiritual ones.” This is how the author describes this extraordinary expatriate novel.

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About Lawrence

A prominent voice of the wide-open poetry movement that began in the 1950s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has written poetry, translation, fiction, theater, art criticism, film narration, and essays. Often concerned with politics and social issues, Ferlinghetti’s poetry countered the...

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Published Reviews

Dec.13.2007

Close upon the twentieth anniversary of the student uprisings in Paris comes the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s novel about a May-September romance set against those few months of profound upheaval. Annie, an...

Dec.13.2007

[Ferlinghetti] tackles more material than ever in this first volume of verse since How to Paint Sunlight (2001). Twelve untitled sections ... seek, and in part arrive at, an inclusive history of...