Back Roads to Far Places

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A single, long poem written with influences from Japanese poetry and Tibetan Buddhist texts. Starting out after Basho but meeting milarepa and Dante among others en route, the poet finds his own way, toward a kind of American Mantra.

status	Copy #1 (5011): in
genre	Literature and Fiction » Beat Generation
publisher	New Directrions
publish date	1971
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