<div><p>Lawrence Ferlinghetti has influenced American culture like few other poets. But in 1955, shortly before he would gain fame as the beloved author of<i>A Coney Island of the Mind</i>, he was an unpublished and mostly unknown poet. He launched City Lights Publishers that year with a five-hundred-copy letterpress edition of<i>Pictures of the Gone World</i>, Number One in the Pocket Poets Series. A classic collection of early work,<i>Pictures</i> includes many of Ferlinghetti's most iconic poems. This limited edition sixtieth anniversary hardcover restores the book to its original selection, and is a must for collectors and fans.</p><p><b>Lawrence Ferlinghetti </b>is a poet, painter, and founder of City Lights Booksellers &amp; Publishers.</p></div>