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The Secret Meaning of Things
The Secret Meaning of Things
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BOOK DETAILS

  • Paperback
  • May.29.1968
  • 9780811200455
  • New Directions

Lawrence gives an overview of the book:

These poems show a progressive continuity and clarity of perception that apprehends the hard reality and luminous irreality in everyday phenomena.
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These poems show a progressive continuity and clarity of perception that apprehends the hard reality and luminous irreality in everyday phenomena.

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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...