Pictures of the Gone World
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Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.
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It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Books, author of A Coney Island of the Mindand Pictures of the Gone World, among numerous other books, has been drawing from life since his student days in Paris where he frequented the Academie Julienand where he did his first oil painting.
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