Iconic Beat Generation Bookseller & Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti Turns 100
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a leading literary figure of the Beat Generation, turned 100 on Sunday. Ferlinghetti is a poet, bookseller, book publisher, artist and activist. In 1953, he co-founded City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, the first all-paperback bookshop in the country. Two years later, Lawrence Ferlinghetti launched the City Lights publishing house. Both institutions are still running today. City Lights might be best known as the publisher of Allen Ginsberg’s landmark poem "Howl." It revolutionized American poetry and American consciousness, but it also led to Ferlinghetti and his publishing partner being arrested and put on trial for obscenity. He appeared on Democracy Now! in 2007.
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RIP. He died on the same day that Keats did 200 years ago. Hail poetry and literary freedom!
Oh that is such a beautiful connection
You changed my life forever and you have left behind such an important legacy and space. Rest in peace, dear Lawrence Ferlinghetti!
Ferlinghetti, 100 years of age .... a living relic. Poetry as Insurgent Art was quite a treat, one of my personal favorite pieces of poetry. I liked the minimalistic approach of the book.
His closing poem couldn't be more fitting for the times as it was when he wrote it! What a fascinating life he has led and he makes living to 88 look pretty darn good!! Glad he chose staying home and minding store over burning out like a supernova because he is a national treasure like his bookstore. HAPPY 100th
my fellow aries!! ♈😁
neat, simple, timeless: the greatest poetry ambassador.
Happy 100th birthday LF!
Happy 500,000 listeners DN!
He could be talking about yesterday or today. Wonderful interview. Thank you so much.
A genius who lived life from both ends, enshrined compassion he saw in Allen Ginsberg, shook American consciousness as did D.H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf to the European psyche.
In Remembrance Of Remarkable Men...02/22/21
The Absolute Most. The Hippest, Most Solid Cat Of All.
Hey Man, Like Peep That Most Crazy Gone Daddy-O Who's Like All The Way Gonesville, Sweetly Jiving With St.Peter, & Makin' That Fine Angelic Scene...
It's Hard To Think Of A More Iconic Or Important San Francisco Cultural Figure Than Our Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
This Man Was The Anchor Of All That Was Authentically Cool. Period.
Thank you for this interview.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, un maestro.
Happy 100th Birthday to Lawrence Ferlinghetti. City Lights Bookstore carried the poetry journal that my poem 'Vista, Queensboro Plaza, 2012' was published in in November 2014. The journal was called 'Out Of Our.'
HAPPY 101... 💯🧚🏻♀️⛈🎆🌠💜📝🎉🎊
incredible and timeless . . .
National Treasure American Hero
Segments like this is why I subscribe and tune on to democracy now! Voices like Ferlinghetti are totally overlooked by the mainstream media, a legend of american life, american history.
“A hero is an outsider”
-quote by Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the Featured Poet at the Arkansas Celebration of the Arts in Poetry thanks to Suzanne and Dr. Paul Tucker, June and Gary Simmons, Bud Kenny and others. Lucinda and her father Miller Williams, and Shokan Tadashi Kondo
illuminated the Festival.
Afterwards, I emailed LF
and asked how I could find Yevgeny Yevtushenko. He suggested we invite Robert Bly. I was hungry to
meet Yevtushenko. Thanks to Dr. Tucker and Suzanne we’ve enjoyed a
meeting Allen Ginsberg,
Gary Snyder, Red Hawk,
Rita Dove, and Arkansas
poet Laureate Verna Lee
Hinegardner. Bud Kenny
and the Tucker family
formed the Wednesday
Night Poetry which is the longest running weekly
poetry reading - without
missing a single reading since February 1, 1989.
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This is kool, 1953 City Lights the year I was born, in San Franscisco. KPFA!!! Hell no we won't go! Yea weaned my anti-war belief from that time and place. Columbus/Broadway. Polo fields, GG Park, Filmore.
Extraordinary man. Rest In Peace.
I often wondered as the world turned more sour if it were ever possible for the poets to come back and save it alas it has been the comedians who have done so hope they all write poetic prose one day like the advice of LF.
44:28 I’m deeply saddened to inform that DN! is actually losing it’s dissident spirit, has been for the last 5 years. But not because it’s no longer needed, but because of losing the beat and the edge... a lot of things have gone wrong, I don’t want to single out Nermeen, though she’s a big part, has Amy become softer?, her biases?
We DN!’s friends should call for an intervention.
They tried to silence him and the poets he supported. It what happens when cancel culture acquires the authority of government. This impulse can come from any side of the political spectrum. The struggle to express the truth of life continues because of his influence.
Do you have any replacements for all these people dying of old age, from your golden age?
42:13 Pity the people
Thank you again impeccable Amy Goodman for your attention to the finest people and things and the worst human conditions.
“..contains so many silences about so many horrors” -Ferlinghetti
75,000,000 math/truth/morality challenged U$ Citizen$ voted DRUMPF while Ferlinghetti recoiled to the far reaches of the mortal coil calling the 🦢 birds 🦅 🐦 of immortal words to celebrate his ascension from the bowels of this circumcised commodified corn 🌽 -fused conveyor belt colossus.
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Responsible in no small part for the misery and deaths of millions.