Americus, Book I by Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New Directions Publishing Corporation. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

New Directions Publishing Corporation. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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Norton & Company Limited, W. W. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

New Directions, 2004-04. Hardcover. Good.

New Directions Publishing Corporation. Used - Like New. 2004. Hardcover. Fine. Dust Jacket is Fine.

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004. Hardcover. Good/Good . 6x0x9. Spine ends frayed; A good reading copy. Lawrence Ferlinghetti lights out for the territories with Book I of his own born-in-the-U.S.A. epic, Americus.Describing Americus as "part documentary, part public pillow-talk, part personal epica descant, a canto unsung, a banal history, a true fiction, lyric and political," Ferlinghetti combines "universal texts, snatches of song, words or phrases, murmuring of love or hate, from Lotte Lenya to the latest soul singer, sayings and shibboleths from Yogi Berra to the National Anthem, the Gettysburg Address or the Ginsberg Address, that haunt our nocturnal imagination." This book is a wake-up call that breaks new ground in the grand tradition of Whitman, W.C. Williams, Charles Olson, and Ezra Pound, as Ferlinghetti cruises our literary and political landscapes, past and present, to create an autobiography of American consciousness. In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti… Read More

New Directions, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. In Near Fine condition with a Near Fine dust jacket; a clean, tight copy. No markings or damage.