FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence

FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence. American, b. 1920. Genres: Novels, Plays/Screenplays, Poetry, Art/Art history. Career: Principal owner and ed.-in-chief, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA; also painter; first poet laureate of San Francisco, 1998-2000. Member, American Academy of Arts & Letters. Publications: Pictures of the Gone World, 1955, rev. ed., 1995; A Coney Island of the Mind, 1958; (trans.) J. Prevert, Selections from Paroles, 1958; Tentative Description of a Dinner to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower, 1958; (ed.) Beatitude Anthology, 1960; Her (novel), 1960; One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro, 1961; Berlin, 1961; Starting from San Francisco: Poems, 1961, 1967; Unfair Arguments with Existence: Seven Plays for a New Theatre, 1963; (with others) Penguin Modern Poets 5, 1963; Routines (play and short pieces), 1964; Where Is Vietnam?, 1965; An Eye on the World: Selected Poems, 1967; After the Cries of the Birds, 1967; Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow, 1967; The Secret Meaning of Things, 1969; Tyrannus Nix?, 1969; The Mexican Night: Travel Journal, 1970; Back Roads to Far Places, 1971; Love Is No Stone on the Moon, 1971; Open Eyes, Open Heart, 1973; Who Are We Now?, 1976; Northwest Ecolog, 1978; Landscape of Living and Dying, 1979; Endless Life: Selected Poems, 1981; A Trip to Italy and France, 1981; Mule Mountain Dreams, 1981; The Populist Manifestos, 1981; (with N.J. Peters) Literary San Francisco, 1981; Leaves of Life, 1983; Seven Days in Nicaragua Libre, 1984; European Poems and Transitions, 1984; Love in the Days of Rage (novel), 1988; When I Look at Pictures (poems and paintings), 1990; These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems, 1993; The Cool Eye, 1993; A Far Rockaway of the Heart: New Poems, 1997; How to Paint Sunlight: New Poems, 2001. Address: City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133, U.S.A.