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  1. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Poet, playwright, publisher, and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born Lawrence Monsanto Ferling on March 24, 1919 in Yonkers, New York. His father, an Italian immigrant, had shortened the family name upon arrival in America. When Ferlinghetti discovered the lengthier name as an adult, he took it as his own.

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  2. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919 - died February 2nd 2022) is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), a collection of poems that ...

  3. for linnets and planets to fall like rain. and I am waiting for lovers and weepers. to lie down together again. in a new rebirth of wonder. I am waiting for the Great Divide to be crossed. and I am anxiously waiting. for the secret of eternal life to be discovered. by an obscure general practitioner.

  4. Sometime During Eternity . . . By Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Sometime during eternity. some guys show up. and one of them. who shows up real late. is a kind of carpenter. from some square-type place. like Galilee.

  5. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 1919 –. 2021. Great Oracle, why are you staring at me, do I baffle you, do I make you despair? I, Americus, the American, wrought from the dark in my mother long ago, from the dark of ancient Europa—. Why are you staring at me now.

  6. The world is a beautiful place. to be born into. if you don’t mind some people dying. all the time. or maybe only starving. some of the time. which isn’t half so bad. if it isn’t you. Oh the world is a beautiful place.

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  8. Christopher Felver made the 2013 documentary on Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder. [ 52 ] In 2011, Ferlinghetti contributed two of his poems to the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Italian unification , Song of the Third World War and Old Italians Dying inspired by the artists of the exhibition Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Italy 150 held in Turin , Italy (May–June ...

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