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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 and the Beat writers]]''
 +'''Lawrence Ferlinghetti''' (born '''Lawrence Ferling''' on [[March 24]], [[1919]]) is an [[American poet]], [[Painting|painter]], [[Liberalism|Liberal]], and the co-founder of [[City Lights Bookstore|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 Publishers|New Directions]], 1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1 million copies.
 +==The Beats==
 +Although in style and theme Ferlinghetti’s own writing is very unlike that of the original New York based [[Beat Generation|Beat circle]], he had important associations with the Beat writers, who made [[City Lights Bookstore]] their headquarters when they were in San Francisco. He has often claimed that he was not a Beat, but a [[bohemianism|bohemian]] of an earlier generation. A married war veteran and a bookstore proprietor, he didn’t share the high (or low) life of the beats on the road. [[Kerouac]] wrote Ferlinghetti into the character “Lorenzo Monsanto” in his autobiographical novel ''[[Big Sur (novel)|Big Sur]]'' (1962), the story of Jack’s stay (with the Cassadys, the McClures, [[Lenore Kandel]], [[Lew Welch]], and [[Philip Whalen]]) at Ferlinghetti’s cabin in the wild coastal region of [[Big Sur]]. [[Kerouac]] depicts the Ferlinghetti figure as a generous and good-humored host, in the midst of [[Dionysus|Dionysian]] revels and breakdowns.
-[[Image:Howlandotherpoems.jpeg|right]]+Over the years Ferlinghetti published work by many of the Beats, including [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Jack Kerouac]], [[Gregory Corso]], [[William S. Burroughs]], [[Diane DiPrima|Diane diPrima]], [[Michael McClure]], [[Philip Lamantia]], [[Bob Kaufman]], and [[Gary Snyder]]. He was [[Ginsberg]]’s publisher for over thirty years.
-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}}+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.
-==List of books in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series==+== See ==
- +*[[City Lights Pocket Poets Series]]
-# [[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]], Pictures of a Gone World, August 1955+*[[City Lights Journal]]
-# [[Kenneth Rexroth]] (translator), Thirty Spanish Poems of Love and Exile, 1956+{{GFDL}}
-# [[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, painter, Liberal, 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.

The Beats

Although in style and theme Ferlinghetti’s own writing is very unlike that of the original New York based Beat circle, he had important associations with the Beat writers, who made City Lights Bookstore their headquarters when they were in San Francisco. He has often claimed that he was not a Beat, but a bohemian of an earlier generation. A married war veteran and a bookstore proprietor, he didn’t share the high (or low) life of the beats on the road. Kerouac wrote Ferlinghetti into the character “Lorenzo Monsanto” in his autobiographical novel Big Sur (1962), the story of Jack’s stay (with the Cassadys, the McClures, Lenore Kandel, Lew Welch, and Philip Whalen) at Ferlinghetti’s cabin in the wild coastal region of Big Sur. Kerouac depicts the Ferlinghetti figure as a generous and good-humored host, in the midst of Dionysian revels and breakdowns.

Over the years Ferlinghetti published work by many of the Beats, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, Diane diPrima, Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, Bob Kaufman, and Gary Snyder. He was Ginsberg’s publisher for over thirty 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.

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