A review by avoryfaucette
How to Paint Sunlight: Lyric Poems & Others (1997-2000) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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.