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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  • Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind

    August 20, 2008

    • It has been 50 years since Ferlinghetti's classic book A Coney Island of the Mind was released! Simply amazing and it's just held up so well over the years. It remains one of my all-time favorite books of poetry -- I just dig it. :-) Here's a story (http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/08/revisiting_coney_island_of_the.html) that celebrates this accomplishment. I was able to get the info ...
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  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Ana Elsner, Shared Passions

    June 24, 2008

    • Ana Elsner and Lawrence Ferlinghetti: two Poets, two Artists...I have known Lawrence Ferlinghetti for many years and am familiar with his poetic voice as well as with his visual artistic expression. We are both poets and artists at the same time.I recently had the honor of exhibiting my watercolor paintings alongside Lawrence's art works in a group show at Live Worms Gallery , a progressive San ...
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  • Reading List: Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    February 18, 2008

    • Lawrence Ferlinghetti is the Poet Laureate of San Francisco, and, boy, does he deserve to be. Until a few days ago I had no idea I'd enjoy his work as much as I love this little book, a grand work-in-progress that was first published in 1975 and most recently revised last year, because I never picked up one of his books before. One of a grand series of life mistakes. . . This is an amazing book ...
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