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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Predicate Object
instanceOf poetry book series
publishing series
associatedMovement Beat Generation NERFINISHED
San Francisco Renaissance NERFINISHED
avant-garde literature
basedIn San Francisco NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalImpact challenged literary censorship norms in the United States
helped popularize Beat poetry internationally
firstVolume Pictures of the Gone World NERFINISHED
firstVolumePublicationYear 1955
format small-format paperback
foundedBy Lawrence Ferlinghetti NERFINISHED
genre poetry
hasEditor Lawrence Ferlinghetti NERFINISHED
hasNotableAuthor Allen Ginsberg NERFINISHED
André Breton NERFINISHED
Bob Kaufman NERFINISHED
Diane di Prima NERFINISHED
Frank O’Hara NERFINISHED
Gregory Corso NERFINISHED
Jack Kerouac NERFINISHED
Kenneth Patchen NERFINISHED
Lawrence Ferlinghetti NERFINISHED
Pier Paolo Pasolini NERFINISHED
hasNotableWork A Coney Island of the Mind NERFINISHED
Gasoline & The Vestal Lady on Brattle NERFINISHED
Howl and Other Poems NERFINISHED
Kaddish and Other Poems NERFINISHED
Lunch Poems NERFINISHED
Pictures of the Gone World NERFINISHED
hasPublisher City Lights Books NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
publisherImprintOf City Lights Bookstore NERFINISHED
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