Writing Across the Landscape

575 Pages·2015·15.07 MB·English

by  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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To my mother, Clemence Albertine Monsanto,
and my brothers, all now in some heaven.
Every journal is a confessional. If it’s in the first person, it
cannot help but be. Unless the author of it lies to himself
—and that makes it even more of a confessional. I am
trying to draw the rake of my journal over the landscape.
Perhaps I will uncover something.

CONTENTS
Previously Published Works
Author’s Note
Editors’ Introduction
First Time Abroad
Normandy Invasion (June 6, 1944)
I. THE SIXTIES
Latin America (January–February 1960)
America! America! (March–November 1960)
St. Thomas—Puerto Rico (November 1960)
Picturesque Haiti (November–December 1960)
Poet’s Notes on Cuba (December 1960)
New Orleans (December 8, 1960)
Big Sur Journal (September 1961)
Salton Sea Notes (October 1961)
Seattle—British Columbia (February 1962)
France—North Africa (May–July 1963)
London (1963)
Tijuana—La Paz (January 4–7, 1964)
Los Angeles—Fresno (January 1964)
Nerja Journals (February–May 1965)
Italian Journal (June 1965)
Andrei Voznesensky / Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1966)
Berlin Blue Rider (February 1967)
Russian Winter Journal (February–March 1967)
High Noon, High Night, Salome, Arizona (October 9, 1967)
New Mexico (October 1967)
Santa Rita Journal (January 1968)
Paris: May 1968
The Honorary Sheriff of Keystone Heights, Fla. (August 1968)
Massachusetts—Big Sur (August–October 1968)
Paris and Rome (December 1968)
II. THE MEXICAN NIGHT
III. THE SEVENTIES
Florida (July 1970)
Spain Remembered at a Distance (1971)
Ferlinghetti—Ginsberg Australian Trip (March 1972)
Mexico, Again (May 1972)
Hawaii (March 1974)
Beatitudes Visuales Mexicanas (October–November 1975)
Pacific Northwest (July 1976)
Manina (August 1978)
Bisbee Poetry Festival (August 1979)
IV. THE EIGHTIES
Amsterdam and the Rhine (September–October 1981)
Boulder Notes (July 1982)
Through the Labyrinth into the Sun (August 1982)
Milan (December 1982)
A Walk Around My Old Quarter (December 21, 1982)
Marrakesh Journal (July 1983)
The Mouth of the Truth (August–September 1983)
Seven Days in Nicaragua Libre (January 1984)
Harbin Hot Springs, California (August 1984)
Rome—Napoli—Sicily (September 1984)
Tennessee (April 1986)
France—Portugal (July 1986)
Austria (September 1986)
Chicago (June 1988)
Mexico—Nicaragua (July 1989)
Italia (October 1989)
V. THE NINETIES
Pompei (September 1990)
Baja Beatitudes (March 1991)
Britain—Spain—France (May 1991)
Italia (May 1995)
Journal Notes, New York (March 2, 1997)
Italia Ancora (April–May 1997)
Voyages (April–May 1998)
Voyage au But (July 1999)
VI. 2000–2010
Greece—Italy (March 2001)
Oaxaca (February 2004)
Berlin Journal (June 2004)
Running Thoughts / Dadapolis (October 2005)
Mexico—the Bullfight (February 2006)
Italy—France (2006–2007)
Yelapa, Mexico (January 2008)
Belize (February 2010)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index