As a teenager I picked up Reality Sandwiches at Shakespeare and Company in Paris. It changed our lives. Mary and Claude and I moved to San Francisco that fall. I guess that shows how effective the Pocket Series can 8.
I agree - a eureka moment I went from San Francisco to Paris to follow in the footsteps of the Beat Hotel and rediscover surrealism - Camus & Sartre not to mention Nouvelle Vague. Best to you and Charles
While Kerouac wasn't published in the City Lights Pocket Poets series until 1971, Ferlinghetti did published a truncated version of his Book of Dreams in 1961.
Literary historian Raskin makes the big score Pocket Poets were a huge influence on me. Especially Red Cats which culminated for me in attending the vaunted reading of Russia poets Andre Voznesensky and Babi Yar author Yvgeny Yevtushenko. - They were movie stars in a world of mere mortals- their reading @ Fillmore Auditorium was to me a revelation and initiation into the sanctified church of world poetry … San Francisco venerates it’s Beat History and culture and this was the most memorable reading I attended Frisco Tony
As a teenager I picked up Reality Sandwiches at Shakespeare and Company in Paris. It changed our lives. Mary and Claude and I moved to San Francisco that fall. I guess that shows how effective the Pocket Series can 8.
I agree - a eureka moment I went from San Francisco to Paris to follow in the footsteps of the Beat Hotel and rediscover surrealism - Camus & Sartre not to mention Nouvelle Vague. Best to you and Charles
While Kerouac wasn't published in the City Lights Pocket Poets series until 1971, Ferlinghetti did published a truncated version of his Book of Dreams in 1961.
Thanks, Vincent, for remembering that detail.
The Grolier Club edition is on Amazon, where it’s described as a 47-page pamphlet. The more recent edition is on the Maze Books site.
Always interesting insite into the beats
Literary historian Raskin makes the big score Pocket Poets were a huge influence on me. Especially Red Cats which culminated for me in attending the vaunted reading of Russia poets Andre Voznesensky and Babi Yar author Yvgeny Yevtushenko. - They were movie stars in a world of mere mortals- their reading @ Fillmore Auditorium was to me a revelation and initiation into the sanctified church of world poetry … San Francisco venerates it’s Beat History and culture and this was the most memorable reading I attended Frisco Tony
Positive words, shimmering memories, Tony.
Thank you for that extra information.
In the comment by Pam Plymell below, the final ‘8’ should be ‘be’.