He wrote in the notes for this, that it was written as a jazz accompaniment. Genius. I have carried his books with me for 50+ years. I thank him, for without him the counter-culture revolution may have never happened. RIP Lawrence... from me in Arizona
Thank goodness for Lawrence Ferlinghetti! One of a kind although he knew and worked with so many talented and often controversial artists. He could not- by his own words- be lumped into The Beat Generation in a full-fledged way, personally. These are the people he knew and worked with and hung out and talked and published for-and it is all an earlier form of a LONG "Happening". He waited a LONG TIME! I have been quoting him since I was in High School-around 14-15 years old. I am now 71. To those who knew him well and are still here, if you "happen" to ever see this little bit of words strung together-please know that he inspired this girl who turned into this woman who turned into this (hopefully) crone. Thank you! Terri Spencer
Always one of my favorite poets. I read this aloud in my Modern American poetry class. I love this poem; it is the sixties, my era. His poetry was made for being read out loud...wonderful.
This is a fine understated reading. Thank you for not mixing it with music and letting it stand on its own. Lawrence told me about ten years ago that he did not like to read his poems to jazz, to music. But it's hard to find one that isn't.
One of the greatest poems of the period (and this period, too) ..More true today.....and of course, the humane voice of Abu Rafique adds to the poignancy...as we wait..
R. I. P. Very much enjoyed his poetry. I, too, am a poet but specialize in Japanese forms: i. e. haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my poem among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary: Bashō’s frog. . . four hundred years of ripples At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water". As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are that ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain”. And my tanka: returning home from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my face with paint and turn into art ~~ -All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida. Al
Last Waltz for Lawrence Ferlinghetti Last Waltz for Lawrence Ferlinghetti I think not though it was recorded Give us this day our daily Lawrence Those who came before us will kick us in the butt and we should not regret Give us this day our daily Ferlinghetti Where we can imagine if not truly transform and sit on the Serengeti Look out there's a lion who's going to eat you Give us this day our daily community our weekly love and don't forget yourself in all its mirrored transformations Take not what your country can do for you take no bullshit and understand bad art Give us this lifetime another Lawrence Ferlinghetti GjW 2*23*2021
There is a CD of Ferlinghetti himself reading poems from his Coney Island of the Mind. One of my lifelong faves. He declaims this one in a style more intense than Rafique.
In Remembrance Of Remarkable Men...02/22/21 The Absolute Most. The Hippest, Coolest Cat Of All. Man, Peep That The Most Crazy Gone Daddy-O Is Like, All The Way Gonesville, Jiving With St.Peter, & Makin' That 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.
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.
He was i ducted for publishing and disseminating lewd and profane material. This was a period in time where the U.S. wanted to appear wholesome and familial. Ferlinghetti's own poems and from the BEAT GENERATION shocked everyone. He was exonerated and Ferlinghetti was an avid proponent to the written and spoken word. It is ironic how these United States is being taken apart by people who get insulted by everything and want more rights than anyone else. Political Correctness has turned too many people into that spoiled brat who cries to get preferred attention. God bless Ferlinghetti and May he Rest In Peace.
He wrote in the notes for this, that it was written as a jazz accompaniment. Genius. I have carried his books with me for 50+ years. I thank him, for without him the counter-culture revolution may have never happened. RIP Lawrence... from me in Arizona
Funny was just talking to my neighbor who has also,carried around his books for 50 plus years. Maybe this is the other Declaration of Independence.
Have held on to Coney Island of the Mind for 50 years. Always finding myself returning to it.
RIP Lawrence, a man that helped to expand the boundaries of freedom in art.
Much respect from Brazil.
Thank goodness for Lawrence Ferlinghetti! One of a kind although he knew and worked with so many talented and often controversial artists. He could not- by his own words- be lumped into The Beat Generation in a full-fledged way, personally. These are the people he knew and worked with and hung out and talked and published for-and it is all an earlier form of a LONG "Happening". He waited a LONG TIME! I have been quoting him since I was in High School-around 14-15 years old. I am now 71. To those who knew him well and are still here, if you "happen" to ever see this little bit of words strung together-please know that he inspired this girl who turned into this woman who turned into this (hopefully) crone. Thank you! Terri Spencer
Always one of my favorite poets. I read this aloud in my Modern American poetry class.
I love this poem; it is the sixties, my era.
His poetry was made for being read out loud...wonderful.
This is a fine understated reading. Thank you for not mixing it with music and letting it stand on its own. Lawrence told me about ten years ago that he did not like to read his poems to jazz, to music. But it's hard to find one that isn't.
One of the greatest poems of the period (and this period, too)
..More true today.....and of course, the humane voice of Abu Rafique adds to
the poignancy...as we wait..
Wonderful and Epic
i love this poem......
Poet Ferlinghetti is gone Age 101... RIP!
We are still waiting...
Thank you so much for posting this! Been looking for this recording for a long time. Didn't think it existed.
I had no idea who this poet was until I heard he passed on. Really enjoying his work. Wish I knew sooner.
Me too
Well, at least you're here.
i love this poem
I really like this poem and its deepness!
Safe travels Love of My Life...
R.I.P.
RIP.
Art Is For Everybody
“Read Between The Lives”
He was 101years Old
Poetry As An Insurgent
R. I. P.
Very much enjoyed his poetry. I, too, am a
poet but specialize in Japanese forms: i. e. haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu.
I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my poem among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor.
Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary:
Bashō’s frog. . .
four hundred years
of ripples
At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA
forum.
The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so
numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this
method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing
about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the
sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water".
As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are that ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain”.
And my tanka:
returning home
from a Jackson Pollock
exhibition
I smear my face with paint
and turn into art
~~
-All love in isolation
from Miami Beach,
Florida.
Al
it's like a prayer.
This is abridged but my favorite poem.
“And I am waiting perpetually and forever for a renaissance of wonder”
..and I am waiting to find u in heaven LF¡viva bravo grazzzi AMYN!
Last Waltz for Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Last Waltz for Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I think not though it was recorded
Give us this day our daily Lawrence
Those who came before us will kick us in the butt and we should not regret
Give us this day our daily Ferlinghetti
Where we can imagine if not truly transform and sit on the Serengeti
Look out there's a lion who's going to eat you
Give us this day our daily community our weekly love and don't forget yourself in all its mirrored transformations
Take not what your country can do for you take no bullshit and understand bad art
Give us this lifetime another Lawrence Ferlinghetti
GjW
2*23*2021
Graham Walsh Go Man GO! That is what you do! Just get it out there! Well done on a night like this.
@@MrDanty64 thank you I was having a moment it seemed to work
I am waiting to go to Wales
Right in there with Howl!!!
Somewhat, but the tone of the presentation is much different.
There is a CD of Ferlinghetti himself reading poems from his Coney Island of the Mind. One of my lifelong faves. He declaims this one in a style more intense than Rafique.
RIP
In Remembrance Of Remarkable Men...02/22/21
The Absolute Most. The Hippest, Coolest Cat Of All.
Man, Peep That The Most Crazy Gone Daddy-O Is Like, All The Way Gonesville, Jiving With St.Peter, & Makin' That 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.
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.
He was i ducted for publishing and disseminating lewd and profane material. This was a period in time where the U.S. wanted to appear wholesome and familial. Ferlinghetti's own poems and from the BEAT GENERATION shocked everyone. He was exonerated and Ferlinghetti was an avid proponent to the written and spoken word. It is ironic how these United States is being taken apart by people who get insulted by everything and want more rights than anyone else. Political Correctness has turned too many people into that spoiled brat who cries to get preferred attention. God bless Ferlinghetti and May he Rest In Peace.
Had a woman written this,...
Farewell, brother, you don't need to wait anymore. Go to Jesus.
not ferlighetti
Ferlinghetti is the author but yes the reader is Abu B. Rafique as noted