Open eye, open heart by Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - 1973

New York: New Directions, 1973. First trade paperback edition. Paperback. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, light soiling to fore-edges and covers, bright pages in tight binding, else very good(+) to near fine(-).. White octavo, b&w portrait to front cover, 148 pages, 21 cm. Selected works reveal the modern poet's thoughts on personal, social and political concerns. Contents: True confessional -- Mock confessional -- In a time of revolution for instance -- The astonished heart -- Sueño real -- Big Sur grass reverie -- Fugitive configurations -- The real magic opera begins -- Stone reality meditation -- Sunrise, Bolinas -- Song of love & desire -- Please, eternal woman, don't -- At Kenneth Rexroth's -- A phoenix at fifty -- The man who rode away -- An elegy on the death of Kenneth Patchen -- Poem for old Walt -- Into darkness, in Granada -- A Giacometti summer -- An imaginary happening, London -- London, Rainy day -- Thoughts to a concerto of Telemann -- Cro-magnons -- Several surrealist litanies for a film on the cemetery of Père Lachaise -- Toc toc: a couple observed -- Trois poèmes spontanés sur la force de frappe de l'amour à sic heures du matin -- Pound at Spoleto -- Wooden Russia still -- Perpetual revolution -- Poems from "Russian winter journal" -- Moon shot -- A spider.
(Cont.) Concrete politics -- A parade tirade -- Telegram from Spain -- Where is Vietnam? -- Salute -- The third world -- Enigma of Ho Chi Minh's funeral -- Letter to a young poet in Cuba or maybe Spain -- A world awash with fascism and fear -- Baseball canto -- Las Vegas tilt -- Forty odd questions for the Greek regime and one cry for freedom -- Carnaval de Ma?iz -- Alaska pipe dream -- Mother of light mantra -- Big Sur sun sutra -- Laughing & crying -- Night light -- Tantric ballad -- Idol chant -- Great chain chant -- Airport mantra -- Spontaneous anarchy pacifist Buddhist song -- Nine shaman songs resung -- Streets of San Francisco -- Ballad of the boat-keeper. Series: A New Directions book. Poetry.