Guide to the "After the Cries of the Birds" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, circa 1967 SPEC.RARE.CMS.0247 Finding aid prepared by Beth Crowner Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
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2019 March This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2019-03-28T09:23-0400 English Describing Archives: A Content Standard "After the Cries of the Birds" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti SPEC.RARE.CMS.0247 Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections RARE Shared 3 0.03 Cubic feet circa 1967 Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet who was one of the founders of the Beat Movement in poetry in the 1950s. "After the Cries of the Birds" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti contains publisher’s corrected galley proofs, page proofs, a folded dummy, and an annotated dummy for Lawrence’s Ferlinghetti’s publication "After the Cries of the Birds." The materials are dated circa 1967. (1) legal file folder English Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Acquisitions Information

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 Biographical Note

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-) is an American poet who was one of the founders of the Beat Movement in poetry in the 1950s. Ferlinghetti established the City Lights Pocket Book Shop in San Francisco in 1953, and it became a gathering place for other artists involved in the Beat Movement. Ferlinghetti’s poems frequently had political or American themes, such as his 1958 collection “A Coney Island of the Mind” or his poem titled “One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro,” published in 1961.

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"After the Cries of the Birds" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti contains publisher’s corrected galley proofs, page proofs, a folded dummy (mock-up of the final publication), and an annotated dummy for Lawrence’s Ferlinghetti’s "After the Cries of the Birds." The materials are dated circa 1967. The final work was only 18 pages long, and contained the poem the book is named for and a prose piece titled, “Genesis Of.” It was published by Dave Haselwood Books in 1967.

 Dave Haselwood Books. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence After the cries of the birds Beat poetry, American--20th century Dummies (printed matter) Galley proofs Page proofs Poets, American--20th century