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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house; the store and publishing company that published early literary works of the Beat generation, and helped to launch the careers of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. [1] [May 2007]

The City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a series of poetry collections published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books of San Francisco since August 1955. The series is most notable for the publication of Allen Ginsberg's literary milestone "Howl", which lead to an obscenity charge for the publishers that was fought off with the aid of the ACLU.

Initially, the books were small, affordable paperbacks with a distinctive black and white cover design. (This design was borrowed from Kenneth Patchen's An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air (1945), published by Oregon's Untide Press. [2]) The paperbacks were the first introduction for many readers to avant-garde poetry. Many of the poets were members of the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance, but the volumes included a diverse array of poets, including authors translated from Spanish, German, Russian, and Dutch. According to Ferlinghetti, "From the beginning the aim was to publish across the board, avoiding the provincial and the academic...I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment." Template:Ref

List of books in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series

1. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Pictures of a Gone World, August 1955
2. Kenneth Rexroth (translator), Thirty Spanish Poems of Love and Exile, 1956
3. Kenneth Patchen, Poems of Humor and Protest, 1956
4. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems, 1956
5. Marie Ponsot, True Minds, 1956
6. Denise Levertov, Here and Now, 1957
7. William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell : Improvisations, 1957
8. Gregory Corso, Gasoline/Vestal Lady on Brattle, 1958
9. Jacques Prevert, Paroles, 1958
10. Robert Duncan, Selected Poems, 1959
11. Jerome Rothenberg (translator), New Young German Poets, 1959
12. Nicanor Parra, Anti-Poems, 1960
13. Kenneth Patchen, Love Poems, 1960
14. Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and other poems, 1961
15. Robert Nichols, Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train, 1962
16. Yevgeni Yevtuschenko, Anselm Hollo (translator), Red Cats, 1962
17. Malcolm Lowry, Selected Poems, 1962
18. Allen Ginsberg, Reality Sandwiches, 1963
19. Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems, 1964
20. Philip Lamantia, Selected Poems 1943-1966, 1967
21. Bob Kaufman, Golden Sardine, 1967
22. Janine Pommy-Vega, Poems to Fernando, 1968
23. Allen Ginsberg, Planet News, 1968
24. Charles Upton, Panic Grass, 1968
25. Pablo Picasso, Hunk of Skin, 1968
26. Robert Bly, The Teeth-Mother Naked At Last
27. Diane DiPrima, Revolutionary Letters, 1971
28. Jack Kerouac, Scattered Poems, 1971
29. Andrei Voznesensky, Dogalypse, 1972
30. Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America,
31. Pete Winslow, A Daisy in the Memory of a Shark
32. Harold Norse, Hotel Nirvana
33. Anne Waldman, Fast Speaking Woman
34. Jack Hirschman, Lyripol
35. Allen Ginsberg, Mind Breaths
36. Stefan Brecht, Poems
37. Peter Orlovsky, Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs, 1978
38. Antler, Factory
39. Philip Lamantia, Becoming Visible, 1981
40. Allen Ginsberg, Plutonian Ode 1977-1980, 1982
41. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roman Poems
42. Scott Rollins (editor), Nine Dutch Poets
43. Ernesto Cardenal, From Nicaragua With Love
44. Antonio Porta, Kisses From Another Dream
45. Adam Conford, Animations
46. La Loca, Adventures on the Isle of Adolescence
47. Vladimir Mayakovsky, Listen!
48. Jack Kerouac, Poems all Sizes, 1992
49. Daisy Zamora, Riverbed of Memory
50. Rosario Murillo, Angel in the Deluge
51. Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
52. Alberto Blanco, Dawn of the Senses
53. Julio Cortazar, Save Twilight: Selected Poems
54. Dino Campana, Orphic Songs
55. Jack Hirschman, Front Lines: Selected Poems

References

• Introduction, page i. City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, editor. City Lights Books, 1995. (ISBN 0-87286-311-5)
• City Lights Pocket Poets - Cover Story by Marcus Williamson