{"title":"Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eCity Lights Pocket Poets Series\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a diverse and thought-provoking selection that spans a broad spectrum of subjects from philosophy and psychology to finance, business, and history. Readers can explore incisive works that challenge conventional thinking while engaging with fresh perspectives on complex themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith titles touching on travel, adventure, children's stories, and cutting-edge technology, this series appeals to curious minds seeking depth and variety. 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In 1971, Lawrence Ferlinghetti published the first collection of these poems in his iconic Pocket Poets Series, and di Prima would go on to publish four subsequent editions, expanding the collection each time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the last years of her life, di Prima got to work on the final iteration of this lifelong project, collecting all of her previously published \"letters\" and adding the new work, poems written from 2007 up to the time of her death in October 2020. Published in a board-bound edition that proudly features the original edition's cover art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Letters, 50th Anniversary Edition\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is a generosity and affection in \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Letters\u003c\/em\u003e that I find myself returning to, always, when I'm at my most cynical and feeling lost for any understanding of what a better world might look like. When I need to be grounded and re-centred in my understanding of community care as a living, breathing, full-time mission. And, quite simply, when I need to be reminded of how language can begin on the page, and echo far beyond.\" - Hanif Abdurraqib\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"What's astonishing about Diane di Prima's \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Letters\u003c\/em\u003e is how these poems are adamantly useful. A manual of insurgent instruction, these poems tell you how to mitigate tear gas and sleep deprivation, eat a healthy diet, and overthrow the state. This book is ever more urgent in our moment, as a resurgent left faces down the apocalypse. \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Letters\u003c\/em\u003e is a time machine towards a better future.\" - Ken Chen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"With this new and expanded edition we are offered a window onto a master poet redefining revolution over her lifetime. Di Prima continues to interrogate the ways in which we have been taught to live, love, eat, write, fight and take control. How can we make the most of this book and its wisdom? It's not enough to simply read it or even to write our own \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Letters\u003c\/em\u003e. These poems are not realised until we are called upon to act.\" - Cedar Sigo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"How do 'we' keep fighting? 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And here you thought this classic couldn't get any better.\" - Wendy Trevino\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46868770717932,"sku":"9780872868793","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/21184513482498.jpg?v=1759768719"},{"product_id":"lunch-poems-by-frank-ohara-9780872860353","title":"Lunch Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eImportant poems by the late New York poet published in \u003ci\u003eThe New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear\u003c\/i\u003e and stranger places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware- or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life, coexistence, and depth, while never forgetting to eat lunch, his favorite meal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"O'Hara speaks directly across the decades to our hopes and fears and especially our delights; his lines are as intimate as a telephone call. Few books of his era show less age.\" --Dwight Garner,\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As collections go, none brings. . .quality to the fore more than thethirty-seven \u003ci\u003eLunch Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1964 by City Lights.\" --Nicole Rudick,\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What O'Hara is getting at is a sense of the evanescence, and the power, of great art, that inextricable contradiction - that what makes it moving and transcendent is precisely our knowledge that it will pass away.This is the ethos at the center of \"Lunch Poems\": not the informal or the conversational for their own sake but rather in the service of something more intentional, more connective, more engaged.\" --David L. Ulin,\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles TImes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The collection broadcasts snark, exuberance, lonely earnestness, and minute-by-minute autobiography to a wide, vague audience-much like today's Twitter and Facebook feeds.\" --Micah Mattix, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the most significant post-war American poets, Frank O'Hara grew up in Grafton, MA, graduating from Harvard in 1950. After earning an MA at Michigan in 1951, O'Hara moved to New York, where he began working for the Museum of Modern Art and writing for Art News. By 1960, he was named Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions at MOMA. Along with John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, and Barbara Guest, he is considered an original member of the New York School. 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Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it became the subject of a lengthy court trial, during which a series of poets and professors successfully argued before the court that the book was not obscene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHowl and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is the single most influential poetic work of the post-World War II era, with over one million copies now in print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Howl\u003c\/i\u003e was Allen's metamorphosis from quiet, brilliant, burning bohemian scholar trapped by his flames and repressions to epic vocal bard.\" -Michael McClure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is the poet, Allen Ginsberg, who has gone, in his own body, through the horrifying experiences described from life in these pages.\" -William Carlos Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"At the height of his bardic powers, Allen Ginsberg could terrify the authorities with the mere utterance of the syllable 'om' as he led street throngs of citizens protesting the Vietnam War. Ginsberg reigned as the raucous poet of American hippiedom and as a literary pioneer whose freewheeling masterwork \u003ci\u003eHowl\u003c\/i\u003e prevailed against government censorship in a landmark obscenity trial 50 years ago.\" -\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fifty years ago, on October 3, Judge Clayton Horn ruled that Allen Ginsberg's great epic Beat-era poem \u003ci\u003eHowl\u003c\/i\u003e was not obscene but instead, a work of literary and social merit. This ruling allowed for the publication of \u003ci\u003eHowl\u003c\/i\u003e and exonerated the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who faced jail time and a fine 50 years ago for publishing \u003ci\u003eHowl\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -Pacifica.org\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAllen Ginsberg was born June 3, 1926, the son of Naomi Ginsberg, a Russian émigré, and Louis Ginsberg, a lyric poet and schoolteacher, in Paterson, New Jersey. 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Cortázar is a people's poet, accessible from every angle, and his position as a titan of the Latin American boom is indisputable.\" - \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorld renowned as one of the masters of modern fiction, Julio Cortázar was also a prolific poet. While living in Paris during the last months of his life, Cortázar assembled his life's work in verse for publication, and \u003ci\u003eSave Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e selects the best of that volume, making his poems available in English for the very first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis expanded edition, with nearly one hundred new pages of poems, prose, and illustrations, is a book to be savoured by both the familiar reader and the newcomer to Cortázar's work. Ranging from the intimate to the political, tenderness to anger, heartbreak to awe, in styles both traditionally formal and free, Cortázar the poet and subverter of genres is revealed as a versatile and passionate virtuoso. More than a collection of poems, this book is a playful and revealing self-portrait of a writer in love with language in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSave Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"With this expanded edition of \u003ci\u003eSave Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Kessler continues his project, begun in the 1980s, of translating poetry by Julio Cortázar. Widely known for his fiction, especially \u003ci\u003eHopscotch\u003c\/i\u003e, a seminal work of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar was also a compelling poet. Kessler has found just the right turns of phrase in English to capture the Argentine's deeply moving writing and exceptionally emotive language. What a gift this collection is for English-speaking readers.\" - \u003cb\u003eEdith Grossman\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the PEN\/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Some people run the world, others are the world. Cortázar's poems are the world; they have a special consideration for the unknown.\" - \u003cb\u003eEnrique Vila-Matas\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Illogic of Kassel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"What a pleasure, this walk in a well-orchestrated park with shades as complex, as light \u0026amp; as dark, as multifoliate as the actual world! This book—the 'poetic ecology' Cortázar had envisioned—is an open invitation to make yourselves at home twixt sea and loss, wine \u0026amp; sorrow, birth \u0026amp; riptide, tobacco \u0026amp; talk, laughter \u0026amp; death. Nothing human is foreign to the poet \u0026amp; he brings it home with great clarity \u0026amp; grace. 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