The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative fortieth Anniversary Edition. When the book arrived from its British printers, it was seized almost immediately by U.S. Customs, and shortly thereafter the San Francisco police arrested its publisher and editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, together with City Lights Bookstore manager Shigeyoshi Murao. The two of them were charged with disseminating...

""Printer's ink is the greatest explosive."--Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of the Gone World-the only book of his own poems that Ferlinghetti would ever publish at City Lights. Within a year, he had brought out two more volumes, translations by Kenneth Rexroth and then poems...

"World renowned as one of the masters of contemporary fiction, Julio Cortazar was also a prolific poet, who in his final months in Paris, ill with leukemia, assembled what he wanted saved of his life's work in verse. This expanded edition of Save Twilight, offers a bilingual survey of Cortazar's enduring poetry ranging through his various voices, moods, and styles"--

A new edition of Ginsberg's famous poem "Kaddish", and other selections.