Unfair Arguments With Existence - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - 1963

"Prospecting for love, we dig flesh," writes Lawrence Ferlinghetti in the notes to these 'beat-up little dramas taken from real life' which he sees as 'very theatrical arguments in the sense of plots with a purpose, arguments with life itself, and arguments with the audience.' These five short plays spring from a strange, wide-ranging imagination, and they bring to life a series of brilliant stage figures, each isolated in his own world, each with his obsessions (which in our age, Ferlinghetti says, may replace the fatal flaws of classic drama..." A wonderful collection of scenes that place Ferlinghetti as the continued movement of absurdist theater... Unfair Arguments With Existence - Lawrence Ferlinghetti Published 1963, New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York - Sixth Printing Softcover/Trade Paperback. Approx 5.5x8in. 85pp. In good vintage condition.