Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A prominent figure in the wide-open poetry movement of the 50s, Lawrence Ferlinghetti gave voice to a generation that changed the face of poetry forever. Challenging the elite's definition of art and the artist's role, Ferlinghetti founded City Lights Bookstore, providing a meeting place for writers, artists, and intellectuals for over a half century. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind continues to be the most popular poetry book in the United States. His most recent work, Americus Book I was published by New Directions in 2004. Tune in for this reading before a live audience at UC Berkeley. Series: "Lunch Poems Reading Series" [1/2006] [Humanities] [Show ID: 11156]

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• writing
• art
• poetry
• Ferlinghetti

[ebonz2]

What a joke! Whitman could have read it better without teeth. The Beats are just that--- beat. Dr.Ayn Rand was right on-- the beatniks are dime a dozen in the primitive jungles. They have no knowledge of Romantic poetry .

[devindevon59]

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[Poemsapennyeach]

Great stamina for his age.

[46cafejay]

One of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Excellent!!

[whizbang47]

He's a gas! He hasn't changed, his stuff's delicious! Dancing phenomena, snorting, tumbling, heaped without a loss of step. Smell

that Monitor street.