With a voice emerging from class tensions, labor struggles, the Great Depression, and World War II, Vincent Ferrini lived as a people's poet crying out for an end to exploitation and organized greed. Radical Christian gnosis and the conviction that poetry should be more than a display of word-craft distinguished him from poets like T. S. Eliot, infusing his work with dynamic images of Christ as a fighter, a revolutionary, and a martyr in opposing the mighty for the sake of the poor.  

The Whole Song: Selected Poems (American Poetry Recovery Series)

Literature & Fiction

Whitehead, Fred

Warren, Kenneth

Ferrini, Vincent

Poetry

University of Illinois Press

Selected poems

University of Connecticut Library

Know fish

Know Fish: Book Iii, the Navigators

History & Criticism

Univ of Connecticut Business

Vincent Ferrini was born in Saugus, Massachusetts on June 24, 1913. Vincent's parents, John and Rita Ferrini, were Christian anarchists who emigrated from Riano and Bella, Italy in the province of Abruzzi to work in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts. Vincent's experience working in the shoe factories would instill a sensitivity for the life of the poor.Ignoring his father's warning that the son of a shoe worker could never become a poet, Vincent published his first volume of poetry, "No Smoke" in 1940. He pursued his education in the Lynn Public Library and when the Great Depression hit, the young bard found work as a teacher in the WPA. In 1943, Mike Gold of the Daily Worker praised "Injunction", a collection of working class vignettes set against the backdrop of World War II. In 1942 he married and left his job at General Electric to make a living as a frame maker.Ferrini remained an academic outsider who never made a living solely from his writing. With vigor, creativity, and compassion he kept publishing for over 67 years, producing 31 volumes of poetry, four volumes of plays, and an autobiography. Vincent is the subject of his nephew Henry Ferrini's film Poem in Action. He also is interviewed briefly in Henry's film about Vincent's colleague Charles Olson entitled Polis is this.

Hermit of the Clouds: The Autobiography of Vincent Ferrini

Ten Pound Island Book Co

Deus ex machina

3300 Press

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History &amp; Criticism. Poetics. California Interest. African &amp; African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Film. Featuring Edward Dorn, Vincent Ferrini, Helene Johnson, Pauline Kael &amp; Robert Duncan, and Adrienne Rich. Edited by Kyle Waugh, Kate Tarlow Morgan, Emily Rosamond Claman, Bradley Lubin, Iemanjá Brown, Stefania Heim, erica kaufman, Kristin Moriah, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev &amp; Wendy Tronrud, with General Editor Ammiel Alcalay. From a never before seen manuscript of poems by Harlem Renaissance poet Helene Johnson to a treasure trove of Adrienne Rich's teaching materials from City College, this new series overturns all expectations. We have brought you facsimile reproductions and variorum editions, notes, storyboards, memos, screenplays, letters and of course, poetry from all around America. Building cultural history from the ground up, Series IV provides a completely different vantage point from which to further explore our literary heritage. LOST &amp; FOUND: THE CUNY POETICS DOCUMENT INITIATIVE SERIES IV consists of eight beautifully printed chapbooks (600 pages in all), featuring rare and unpublished texts, including late work by Harlem Renaissance poet Helene Johnson, Adrienne Rich's teaching materials, a newly discovered film script by Edward Dorn, the formative correspondence of Pauline Kael &amp; Robert Duncan, and a facsimile reproduction of Vincent Ferrini's 1946 Tidal Wave: Poems of the Great Strikes. SERIES IV includes: Edward Dorn: Abilene! Abilene! (Parts I &amp; II) (ed. Kyle Waugh) Vincent Ferrini: Before Gloucester (eds. Ammiel Alcalay &amp; Kate Tarlow Morgan) Helene Johnson: After the Harlem Renaissance (ed. Emily Rosamond Claman) Pauline Kael &amp; Robert Duncan: Selected Letters 1945- 1946 (PARTS I &amp; II) (ed. Bradley Lubin) Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968- 1974 (Parts I &amp; II) (eds. Iemanjá Brown, Stefania Heim, erica kaufman, Kristin Moriah, Conor Tomás Reed, Talia Shalev &amp; Wendy Tronrud)

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Series IV (The Cuny Poetics Document Initiative, 4)

RICH, Adrienne

DORN, EDWARD

Duncan, Robert

Johnson, Helene

The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY

No Smoke

The Curious Traveller Press

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