Vintage City Lights Anthology Ferlinghetti Beat Poetry 1974 PB City Lights Books
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Brand/Publisher: Vintage trade paperback anthology titled City Lights Anthology, edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and published by City Lights Books, San Francisco. Title and author: In City Lights Anthology, poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti assembles a wide-ranging collection of work by major Beat and postwar experimental writers including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Diane di Prima, Robert Creeley, Richard Brautigan, and many others, juxtaposed with political essays and prison writings by figures such as Herbert Marcuse, Huey P. Newton, and Ericka Huggins. Format and design: Mid-1970s City Lights trade paperback bound in cream card wraps with bold black typography and a striking surrealist cover drawing titled "Thelonious Monk" by Victor Brauner; interior pages are printed in black ink on cream stock in a clear single-column layout with section headings and author attributions. Content and themes: The anthology blends Beat Generation poetry, surrealist prose, radical political theory, and international voices, presenting lyric and narrative poems, short prose pieces, essays, and manifestos that address subjects such as urban life, eroticism, Marxism and feminism, Black liberation, carceral experience, and resistance to authoritarian regimes. Structure and organization: Contents are arranged by contributor, with each author introduced by a brief heading and followed by one or more selections, while several larger dossier-style sections—
- Publisher: City Lights
- Year: 1974
- ISBN: 9780872860766
- Condition: Good
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