When this selection from Lawrence F...

When this selection from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 1955 Pictures of the Gone World appeared in the Winter 1958 issue of Chicago Review, it marked the magazine's first publication of the novel poetry coming out of San Francisco. As the bard would remark in the after issue, "the poetry which has been making itself heard here of late is what should be called public way poetry. For it amounts to getting the author of poems out of the inner esthetic sanctum where he has too prolonged been contemplating his complicated navel. It amounts to getting metrical composition back into the street where it one time was, out of ...