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Ferlinghetti was born on March 24, 1919, in Harlem, New York. [5] Shortly before his birth, his father, Carlo, a native of Brescia, died from syphillis; [2] and his mother, Clemence Albertine (née Mendes-Monsanto), of Portuguese Khazar descent, was committed to a mental hospital shortly after having tried to burn down a church.
Feb 23, 2021 · For more than 50 years, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti kept the bohemian and beat spirit alive at his City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. In 2007, he spoke to The Times about his life and legacy.
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Feb 24, 2021 · Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been described as "poetry's rock star". US poet, publisher and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of the leading figures of the beat movement, has died at the age of 101 ...
Feb 23, 2021 · Ferlinghetti began his career at a revolutionary time in arts and music. In 1994, he still believed art could make a difference. "I really believe that art is capable of the total transformation ...
Feb 24, 2021 · Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the opposite of the flamboyant literary bad boys drawn to the bohemian haven he nurtured in 1950s San Francisco. ... still going strong after nearly 70 years in San ...
Feb 23, 2021 · (Ferlinghetti had given notice to the American Civil Liberties Union in advance.) Then, in 1957, he was arrested on an obscenity charge that a judge later dropped on the grounds that the poem had “redeeming social importance”; that decision would set a legal precedent for other authors who faced obscenity charges in subsequent years, including William S. Burroughs, D.H. Lawrence, and Henry ...
Feb 23, 2021 · SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Poet, publisher and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped launch and perpetuate the Beat movement, has died. He was 101. Ferlinghetti died at his San Francisco home ...
