Writing Across the Landscape - Travel Journals 1960-2013

Informationen zum Autor Born in Bronxville, New York, in 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the cofounder of San Francisco’s hallowed City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. He lives in San Francisco. Giada Diano is Lawrence Ferlinghetti's translator and biographer in Italy. Her biography is published by Feltrinelli (Milan). Matthew Gleeson is a writer and editor who has spent over a decade with City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Klappentext Lawrence Ferlinghetti-legendary poet and best-selling author-collects here his travel journals. Traversing the latter half of the twentieth century to the present, Writing Across the Landscape positions Ferlinghetti as a major voice whose personal writings are now added to the fabric of twentieth-century literary history. The volume gives glimpses of figures like William Burroughs in London, Ezra Pound in Italy and Fidel Castro at the dawn of the Revolution. Readers will journey to Mexico, Morocco, Paris and Rome, as well as to post-Stalinist Russia on a harrowing journey on the Trans-Siberian Express. Embedded with new poems and Ferlinghetti's pyrotechnic prose, Writing Across the Landscape evokes the people, places and political movements that have shaped our time. Zusammenfassung Motorcycle Diaries for a new generation! this long-awaited volume provides a panoramic portrait of art and life across the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Giada Diano, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ferlinghetti Lawrence, Matthew Gleeson
• Assisted by: Giada Diano (Editor), Diano Giada (Editor), Matthew Gleeson (Editor), Gleeson Matthew (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2015
• EAN: 9781631490019
• ISBN: 978-1-63149-001-9
• Dimensions: 188 mm x 240 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Liveright; Liveright
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, 21st Century, Travel writing, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)