Time of Useful Consciousness

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Book Overview

New Directions is proud to announce a riveting and galvanizing new book by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. At ninety-three, he shows more power than most any other poet at work today. Ferlinghetti describes his new book, Time of Useful Consciousness, as "a fragmented recording of the American stream-of-consciousness, always westward streaming; a people's poetic history in the tradition of William Carlos Williams' Paterson, Charles Olson's Maximus, Allen Ginsberg's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811220311
• ISBN13: 9780811220316
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 16 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Grade 11 to Postsecondary