Pocket Poets Series

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Pocket Poets Series is a landmark collection of small-format poetry books, best known for publishing influential Beat and avant-garde poets and helping to shape postwar American literary culture.

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instanceOf poetry book series
publishing series
associatedMovement Beat Generation
San Francisco Renaissance
avant-garde literature
basedIn San Francisco
countryOfOrigin United States
culturalImpact challenged literary censorship norms in the United States
helped popularize Beat poetry internationally
firstVolume Pictures of the Gone World
firstVolumePublicationYear 1955
format small-format paperback
foundedBy Lawrence Ferlinghetti
genre poetry
hasEditor Lawrence Ferlinghetti
hasNotableAuthor Allen Ginsberg
André Breton
Bob Kaufman
Diane di Prima
Frank O’Hara
Gregory Corso
Jack Kerouac
Kenneth Patchen
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pier Paolo Pasolini
hasNotableWork A Coney Island of the Mind
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle
Howl and Other Poems
Kaddish and Other Poems
Lunch Poems
Pictures of the Gone World
hasPublisher City Lights Books
hasTheme countercultural expression
experimental poetry
urban life in postwar America
inception 1955
language English
notableFor influence on postwar American literary culture
publishing Beat poets
publishing avant-garde poets
notableVolumeNumber 1
4
printingType paperback
publisher City Lights Books
publisherImprintOf City Lights Bookstore
subjectOf literary criticism on Beat publishing
targetAudience general adult readers
typicalPhysicalSize pocket-sized

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City Lights Publishers notableSeries Pocket Poets Series
Pictures of the Gone World series Pocket Poets Series
Notes of a Dirty Old Man includedInSeries City Lights Books Pocket Poets / prose line
linked to: Pocket Poets Series