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Book Description
A reissue of Ferlinghetti's very short experimental plays (1965) with three new plays added to the original thirteen. In this collection Ferlinghetti takes a revolutionary look at modern theater and explores the area between old-style drama and spontaneous improvisation by supplying a blueprint for dramatic action—an outline from which director and actors may create and interpret freely. In one called '"Our Little Trip" two men in conservative suits wind themselves in and out of a long bandage while a questioner circles them seeking Meaning. "Servants of the People" puts on political podium hogs in torrents of cliches. "Bearded Lady 'Dies'" features the Second Coming all decked out for newspaper coverage.


About the Author
In recent years Lawrence Ferlinghettihas devoted a good deal of his time to painting. There have been a number of exhibitions of his work including a major show in Italy where he frequently gives poetry readings. He was very active as San Francisco's first Poet Laureate (1998-1999) and has been writing a weekly column, "Poetry as News," for the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review. How to Paint Sunlight is the fourteenth book of Ferlinghetti's poetry published by New Directions, starting with the ever popular A Coney Island of the Mind (1956), its American paperbound edition edging towards a million copies sold.

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A reissue of Ferlinghetti's very short experimental plays (1965) with three new plays added to the original thirteen. In this collection Ferlinghetti takes a revolutionary look at modern theater and explores the area between old-style drama and spontaneous improvisation by supplying a blueprint for dramatic action—an outline from which director and actors may create and interpret freely. In one called '"Our Little Trip" two men in conservative suits wind themselves in and out of a long bandage while a questioner circles them seeking Meaning. "Servants of the People" puts on political podium hogs in torrents of cliches. "Bearded Lady 'Dies'" features the Second Coming all decked out for newspaper coverage.

Author Biography: In recent years Lawrence Ferlinghettihas devoted a good deal of his time to painting. There have been a number of exhibitions of his work including a major show in Italy where he frequently gives poetry readings. He was very active as San Francisco's first Poet Laureate (1998-1999) and has been writing a weekly column, "Poetry as News," for the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review. How to Paint Sunlight is the fourteenth book of Ferlinghetti's poetry published by New Directions, starting with the ever popular A Coney Island of the Mind (1956), its American paperbound edition edging towards a million copies sold.

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Powerful feeling and fecund imagination...

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