In Memory of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Immortal Beat
A page in honor of legendary poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died today in San Francisco at the age of 101.
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Ferlinghetti: From Normandy and Nagasaki to Ginsberg and City Lights
The poet and co-founder of famed City Lights Bookstore talks about his life and work publishing writers of the Beat Generation on "Scheer Intelligence."
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