Americus
In this volume of what he calls documentary poems, Lawrence Ferlinghetti attempts nothing less than a complete history of the US from a fresh and unexpected source: its poetry. Using not only his own verse but quotations from a range of American poets, Ferlinghetti attempts, as he puts it in one poem, to summarize the past by theft and allusion. He begins his history with Whitman and ends it in the'60s. Along the way, he covers American events both large and small--political, artistic, and mundane: baseball, assassinations, World War II, the flights of both the Kitty Hawk and the Enola Gay. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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