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aarikdanielsen's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
3.75
avoryfaucette's review against another edition
5.0
Ferlinghetti is my favourite poet, and so I opened this collection with dread, as I often do with poets whose earlier work I loved. I needn't have worried, in fact. I wouldn't recommend reading cover to cover, necessarily, as the poems are grouped so that several are very repetitive (especially the first group about light and the group about Ginsberg's death). That said, I absolutely loved the title poem, and I found several of the poems contained therein inspiring, if not necessarily exactly what I expect from or love about Ferlinghetti on the basis of his earlier works.
ameliareadit's review against another edition
2.0
Just not for me I guess. Imagery would take unexpected turns, and not in the good way. He'd drop a banger of a line and then follow it up with some hot-garbage nonsense. With a collection called "How to Paint Sunlight" I expected more nature and grand landscape imagery, instead I was greeted with urban and industrial analogies and "you had to be there" references, like I just wasn't in on the joke.
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