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Lädt ... The Secret Meaning of Things: Poetry (1968. Auflage)von Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Ah, yes: "Bickford's Buddha" -- the Bickford's that had two identical painting reproductions on the same wall. And employees swatting at flies that didn't exist. (The employees existed; the flies did not.) And Grolier's book shop -- only poetry-only shop in the US. It seems it is now out of business, shortly after being "under new ownership". Not as compelling as his prior books, and there would be a few fallow years following this. But he makes a respectable comeback during the lated 1970s, through to date. A slim volume of counterculture poetry from one of the most popular poets of the '60's. There are some strong lines here, but on the whole the poems are undisciplined and rambling. I do credit Ferlinghetti with the idea of not being so rigidly bound by left-right indentation in my own poems, however, which I found quite liberating. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The Secret Meaning of Things has all the elements of his earlier poetry: lyrical intensity, wit, social concern, satirical bite, and above all a classical claritas. But it goes much further: there is a deepening of vision and a darker understanding of our clay condition." The six long poems in The Secret Meaning of Things show a progressive continuity and clarity of perception that apprehends both the hard reality and luminous irreality in everyday phenomena. In "Assassination Raga" - on the death of Robert Kennedy - the glass through which the poet sees darkly is the television screen; the poem was first read on the night of RFK's funeral at a mass memorial in San Francisco. "Bickford's Buddha" is a meditation on "Observation Fever" in Harvard Square, while "All Too Clearly" finds a "touch of old surrealism/at a stoplight in La Jolla." "Through the Looking Glass" begins with an actual flight aboard a commercial airliner and moves through a psychedelic vision to a final flash of the Dance of Shiva, which in turn opens out into the worldview of "After the Cries of Birds." "Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow" comes out of Ferlinghetti's travels to Moscow and across the steppes in the winter of 1967. " Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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