Starting from San Francisco: Poetry FIC and astronaut

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”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Starting from San Francisco: Poetry FIC and astronautThe long poems of Starting From San Francisco present a new, quieter, more profound aspect of the poet. His original lyricism and caustic humor have been confronted, as it were, with the real presence of evil and death. Starting from Paumanok I strike up for a New World wrote Walt Whitman in 1860. Starting from San Francisco, a hundred years later, Ferlinghetti roved back across the country (this cradle we rocked out of) then turned south of the