European Poems & Transitions Christian ministry & pastoral activity 'The Typhoon' of the gap

'The Typhoon' of the gap between man and nature

leaves it in rags

and archaeology

or you know someone who did

a radiant sun and the swaggering confidence of flirtatious American sailors make war feel like a distant threat

European Poems & Transitions Christian ministry & pastoral activity 'The Typhoon' of the gapThese poems on European themes by the author of Her (his Paris novel) and the enduring A Coney Island of the Mind were mostly written during the last seven years and, in the poet's words, are "transformations and transitions looking westward to America and beyond." Flowing from France to Italy to the Netherlands, on to Germany, back to France, and finally toward America, they follow Ferlinghetti's own recent journeying. The poems progress