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"In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
'suffering humanity'"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet. A Coney Island of the Mind (l. 20-23). . .
New American Poetry, The, 1945-1960. Donald M. Allen, ed. (1960) Grove Press. |
"freeways fifty lanes wide
on a concrete continent
spaced with bland billboards
illustrating imbecile illusions of happiness"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet. A Coney Island of the Mind (l. 20-23). . .
New American Poetry, The, 1945-1960. Donald M. Allen, ed. (1960) Grove Press. |
"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet, publisher. A Coney Island of the Mind, sct. 15 (1958). |
"Constantly risking absurdity
and death
whenever he performs
above the heads
of his audience
the poet like an acrobat
climbs on rime
to a high wire of his own making."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet, publisher. A Coney Island of the Mind, sect. 15 (1958). |
"Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet. A Coney Island of the Mind (l. 20-23). . .
New American Poetry, The, 1945-1960. Donald M. Allen, ed. (1960) Grove Press. |
"The pennycandystore beyond the El
is where I first
fell in love
with unreality"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet. A Coney Island of the Mind (l. 20-23). . .
Postmoderns, The; the New American Poetry Revised. Donald Allen and George F. Butterick, eds. (1982) Grove Press. |
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