The Street's Kiss (1998) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine paper and sewn by hand into Magnani Pescia wrappers in an edition of 750 copies.
The limited cloth edition is signed/numbered edition (1-100) bound in cloth and boards .
Letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine paper and sewn by hand into Magnani Pescia wrappers in an edition of 750 copies.
The limited cloth edition is signed/numbered edition (1-100) bound in cloth and boards .
Letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine paper and sewn by hand into Magnani Pescia wrappers in an edition of 750 copies.
The limited cloth edition is signed/numbered edition (1-100) bound in cloth and boards .
A collection of aphorisms about poetry first read over Pacifica Radio KPFA-FM in the 1950s, subsequently lost for decades, and recovered from tape archives to appear here in print for the first time.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco and the first Poet Laureate of that city. Ferlinghetti published many of the Beat poets and is considered by some as a Beat poet as well. Yet Ferlinghetti did not consider himself to be a Beat poet, as he said in the 2013 documentary Ferlinghetti: Rebirth of Wonder: "Don't call me a Beat. I never was a Beat poet." Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions, 1958), sold more copies than any book of poetry in the 20th century. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day." He passed away a month shy of his 102nd birthday, February 22, 2021.
