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
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publishing series ⓘ |
| associatedMovement |
Beat Generation
NERFINISHED
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San Francisco Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ avant-garde literature ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| culturalImpact |
challenged literary censorship norms in the United States
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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
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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
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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
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experimental poetry ⓘ urban life in postwar America ⓘ |
| inception | 1955 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on postwar American literary culture
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publishing Beat poets ⓘ publishing avant-garde poets ⓘ |
| notableVolumeNumber |
1
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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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