The Cool Eye contains texts from two interviews (including two poems read by the author), and two new poems published here for the first time, as well as a cover painting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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The Cool Eye contains texts from two interviews (including two poems read by the author), and two new poems published here for the first time, as well as a cover painting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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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...
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...













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