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	'''Lawrence Ferlinghetti''' (born '''Lawrence Ferling''' on [[March 24]], [[1919]]) is an American [[poet]]. He is also the co-owner of the [[City Lights Bookstore]] and publishing house; the store and [[publishing company]] that published early literary works of the [[Beat generation]], and helped to launch the careers of [[Jack Kerouac]] and [[Allen Ginsberg]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007]		'''Lawrence Ferlinghetti''' (born '''Lawrence Ferling''' on [[March 24]], [[1919]]) is an American [[poet]]. He is also the co-owner of the [[City Lights Bookstore]] and publishing house; the store and [[publishing company]] that published early literary works of the [[Beat generation]], and helped to launch the careers of [[Jack Kerouac]] and [[Allen Ginsberg]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [May 2007]
-	[[City Lights Pocket Poets Series]]
-	The '''City Lights Pocket Poets Series''' is a series of poetry collections published by [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]] and [[City Lights Books]] of [[San Francisco]] since August [[1955]]. The series is most notable for the publication of [[Allen Ginsberg]]'s literary milestone "[[Howl]]", which lead to an [[obscenity]] charge for the publishers that was fought off with the aid of the [[ACLU]].
-	Initially, the books were small, affordable paperbacks with a distinctive black and white cover design. (This design was borrowed from [[Kenneth Patchen]]'s ''An Astonished Eye Looks Out of the Air'' ([[1945]]), published by [[Oregon]]'s [[Untide Press]]. [http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/pocketph.html]) The paperbacks were the first introduction for many readers to avant-garde poetry. Many of the poets were members of the [[Beat Generation]] and the [[San Francisco Renaissance]], but the volumes included a diverse array of poets, including authors translated from [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[German language|German]], [[Russian language|Russian]], and [[Dutch language|Dutch]]. According to Ferlinghetti, "From the beginning the aim was to publish across the board, avoiding the provincial and the academic...I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment." {{ref|ref1}}	+	== See ==
-		+	*[[City Lights Pocket Poets Series]]
-	==List of books in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series==	+
-		+
-	# [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]], Pictures of a Gone World, August 1955	+
-	# [[Kenneth Rexroth]] (translator), Thirty Spanish Poems of Love and Exile, 1956	+
-	# [[Kenneth Patchen]], Poems of Humor and Protest, 1956	+
-	# [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Howl]] and Other Poems, 1956	+
-	# [[Marie Ponsot]], True Minds, 1956	+
-	# [[Denise Levertov]], Here and Now, 1957	+
-	# [[William Carlos Williams]], Kora in Hell : Improvisations, 1957	+
-	# [[Gregory Corso]], Gasoline/Vestal Lady on Brattle, 1958	+
-	# [[Jacques Prevert]], Paroles, 1958	+
-	# [[Robert Duncan]], Selected Poems, 1959	+
-	# [[Jerome Rothenberg]] (translator), New Young German Poets, 1959	+
-	# [[Nicanor Parra]], Anti-Poems, 1960	+
-	# Kenneth Patchen, Love Poems, 1960	+
-	# Allen Ginsberg, [[Kaddish]] and other poems, 1961	+
-	# [[Robert Nichols (poet)|Robert Nichols]], Slow Newsreel of Man Riding Train, 1962	+
-	# [[Yevgeni Yevtuschenko]], [[Anselm Hollo]] (translator), Red Cats, 1962	+
-	# [[Malcolm Lowry]], Selected Poems, 1962	+
-	# Allen Ginsberg, Reality Sandwiches, 1963	+
-	# [[Frank O'Hara]], Lunch Poems, 1964	+
-	# [[Philip Lamantia]], Selected Poems 1943-1966, 1967	+
-	# [[Bob Kaufman]], Golden Sardine, 1967	+
-	# [[Janine Pommy-Vega]], Poems to Fernando, 1968	+
-	# Allen Ginsberg, Planet News, 1968	+
-	# [[Charles Upton]], Panic Grass, 1968	+
-	# [[Pablo Picasso]], Hunk of Skin, 1968	+
-	# [[Robert Bly]], The Teeth-Mother Naked At Last	+
-	# [[Diane DiPrima]], Revolutionary Letters, 1971	+
-	# [[Jack Kerouac]], Scattered Poems, 1971	+
-	# [[Andrei Voznesensky]], Dogalypse, 1972	+
-	# Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America,	+
-	# [[Pete Winslow]], A Daisy in the Memory of a Shark	+
-	# [[Harold Norse]], Hotel Nirvana	+
-	# [[Anne Waldman]], Fast Speaking Woman	+
-	# [[Jack Hirschman]], Lyripol	+
-	# Allen Ginsberg, Mind Breaths	+
-	# [[Stefan Brecht]], Poems	+
-	# [[Peter Orlovsky]], Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs, 1978	+
-	# [[Antler (poet)|Antler]], Factory	+
-	# [[Philip Lamantia]], Becoming Visible, 1981	+
-	# Allen Ginsberg, Plutonian Ode 1977-1980, 1982	+
-	# [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]], Roman Poems	+
-	# [[Scott Rollins]] (editor), Nine Dutch Poets	+
-	# [[Ernesto Cardenal]], From Nicaragua With Love	+
-	# [[Antonio Porta]], Kisses From Another Dream	+
-	# [[Adam Conford]], Animations	+
-	# [[La Loca]], Adventures on the Isle of Adolescence	+
-	# [[Vladimir Mayakovsky]], Listen!	+
-	# Jack Kerouac, Poems all Sizes, 1992	+
-	# [[Daisy Zamora]], Riverbed of Memory	+
-	# [[Rosario Murillo]], Angel in the Deluge	+
-	# Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity	+
-	# [[Alberto Blanco]], Dawn of the Senses	+
-	# [[Julio Cortazar]], Save Twilight: Selected Poems	+
-	# [[Dino Campana]], Orphic Songs	+
-	# Jack Hirschman, Front Lines: Selected Poems	+
-		+
-	==References==	+
-	* Introduction, page i. ''City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology''. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, editor. City Lights Books, 1995. (ISBN 0-87286-311-5)	+
-	* [http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/pocketph.html ''City Lights Pocket Poets - Cover Story''] by [[Marcus Williamson]]	+

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house; the store and publishing company that published early literary works of the Beat generation, and helped to launch the careers of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. [1] [May 2007]

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