Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Actor, Poet, and Author
City Lights Books, the shop where beat was born...a while but then when Grove Press came out with it, he had a much wider circulation. " However, Ferlinghetti turned down William Burroughs's Naked Lunch. "Allen Ginsberg gave me an early version to read, it was a manuscript that was more or... In this article: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, City Lights Books, Big Sur, Henry Miller, Pablo Neruda, Beat, Jack Kerouac Alley, Grove Press, and San Francisco |
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Wikipedia | October 03, 2009
Donald Fagen
After graduating from South Brunswick High School in 1965, Fagen enrolled at Bard College to study English literature, having been inspired by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
In this article: Donald Jay Fagen, Steely Dan, Walter Becker, Bard College, Morph the Cat, The Nightfly, Thelonious Monk, Grammy Award, The King of Comedy, and Confide in Me
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Wikipedia | October 03, 2009
Jean-Jacques Lebel
...his pictorial, poetic and political work. In the 1960s, Lebel translated and published various work by William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso. In 2001 and 2002 he exhibited "Manifestation...
In this article: Jean-Jacques Lebel, Paris, Michael McClure, Marcel Duchamp, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg
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Wikipedia | October 24, 2009
Barney Rosset
...2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Featured in the film are Amiri Baraka, Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Al Goldstein, Erica Jong, Ray Manzarek, Michael McClure, Henry Miller,...
In this article: Samuel Beckett, Evergreen Review, Grove Press, Henry Miller, Waiting for Godot, New School, Joan Mitchell, and William S. Burroughs
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Wikipedia | September 23, 2009
A Supermarket in California
...of Leaves of Grass. The poem is considered to be one of the major works of the Beat Generation, which included other authors of the era such as Jack Kerouac, William Seward Burroughs, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "A Supermarket in...
In this article: Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Federico Garcia Lorca, California, Lethe, and Beat Generation
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Wikipedia | October 21, 2009
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
...years. When the Indian poets of the Hungryalists literary movement came in contact with the visiting Beat poets, Ferlinghetti introduced the Hungryalist poets to Western readers through the initial issues of City Lights Journal. One of...
In this article: Allen Ginsberg, G.I. Bill, City Lights Bookstore, Kenneth Rexroth, Paris, San Francisco, New York, and United States
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
Howl
...(1957) and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959). "Howl" was originally written as a performance piece, but it was later published by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books. The poem was originally considered to be obscene, and...
In this article: Allen Ginsberg, Moloch, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, William Carlos Williams, Beat Generation, and City Lights Bookstore
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Allen Ginsberg
...Ginsberg, Adrian Mitchell, Alexander Trocchi, Harry Fainlight, Anselm Hollo, Christopher Logue, George Macbeth, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael Horovitz, Simon Vinkenoog, Spike Hawkins, Tom McGrath and William Burroughs.
In this article: Irwin Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, William Carlos Williams, Moloch, Beat Generation, William Blake, Paul Cezanne, and Peter Orlovsky
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Wikipedia | September 18, 2008
Beat Scene
...Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, the magazine has featured Lord Buckley, James Jones, Chet Baker, Richard Brautigan, Lew Welch, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Lenny Bruce, Ken Kesey, Jack Hirschman, Raymond Carver, Robert Frank, Gregory Corso,...
In this article: Beat Scene, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Beat, Tom Clark, Beat Generation, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, and William Burroughs
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Wikipedia | June 16, 2009
International Poetry Incarnation
...Mitchell, Alexander Trocchi, Allen Ginsberg, Harry Fainlight, Anselm Hollo, Christopher Logue, George Macbeth, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael Horovitz, Simon Vinkenoog, Spike Hawkins, Tom McGrath and William Burroughs. The...
In this article: Allen Ginsberg, Jeff Nuttall, Michael Horovitz, Tom McGrath, London, Penguin, Anselm Hollo, Barry Miles, Spike Hawkins, and Adrian Mitchell
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling on March 24, 1919) is an American poet and painter, 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 (New York: New Directions, 1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1 million copies.
- Birth Date:
- March 24, 1919
- Birthplace:
- Yonkers, New York, United States
- Occupation:
- poet, activist, essayist, painter
- Period:
- Beat, New American Poets, Postmodernism
- Influenced:
- Bob Dylan
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