num_pages: 90
description: In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one best-selling volume of poetry by any living American poet. Now, New Directions is proud to publish his manifesto in a paperback edition.
language: English
title: Poetry as Insurgent Art
titlecomplete: Poetry as Insurgent Art
genres: Writing, Politics, Poetry, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, Literature, Essays, Classics, Teaching
ratings_count: 956
publisher: New Directions