An unapologetic proponent of “poetry as insurgent art,” he was also a publisher and the owner of the celebrated San Francisco bookstore City Lights. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-23 20:23:41 UTC ]
Poet and countercultural pioneer put on trial for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s Howl went on to become a beloved icon of San FranciscoLawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, painter and political activist who co-founded the famous City Lights bookshop in San Francisco and became an icon of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-02-23 19:42:46 UTC ]
Ferlinghetti was the co-founder of the legendary City Lights bookstore and a champion of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-02-23 18:50:28 UTC ]
The acclaimed poet was longtime proprietor of City Lights, the San Francisco bookstore and avant-garde publishing house that catapulted the Beat Generation to fame. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-02-23 06:26:33 UTC ]
Faber is to publish Little Boy by publisher, poet and author of A Coney Island of the Mind, Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Blending autobiography, literary criticism poetry and philosophy, Little Boy will be published in March 2019, the author’s centenaryThe 99-year-old poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of the last surviving members of the Beat generation, has sold an “experimental” new novel to a major American... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Not every book opens with a page featuring a scrawled handwritten blurb from Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]