Endless Life: Selected Poems

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811207978
• ISBN13: 9780811207973
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Disappointing

I was so excited to purchase a Ferlinghetti book of poetry. Decades of "experts" heaped praise on him like a politician serves up promises. Usually I donate books when I'm done. This one actually went in the trash. I read all kinds of titles. In the last five years, I've only pitched two books. The hype is hyperbole. Well, poetry taste varies widely. I'll have to direct my taste elsewhere.

Astonishing poetry

The way he sees the world is beautiful. Some lines make you see the world in a new way and sort of makes you wish you could see the world the way he does. Here are a few lines that I underlined in some poems that I thought were great: "The pigeons strut about not even thinking of flying" "We steal their lives to feed our own and with their lives our dreams are sown" "In a dream within a dream I dreamt a dream of animals calling to each other in codes we never understand" "A man burns down his house to roast his pig" There are so many more but from these you get the gist of what I mean about his vision. Also, the topics he chooses to write about are very unique. One he wrote about a dog and how it would see the world and others are about places he has been to internationally or within United States.