Lawrence Ferlinghetti Writer

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, 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 (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over one million copies.

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Birth dateMarch 24, 1919
Birth place
Yonkers New York , United States , New York

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influenced by
Allen Ginsberg
Kenneth Rexroth
movement
Beat Generation

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External resources

  1. http://immaginepoesia.org
  2. http://internationalpoetrymuseum.org/ipm/home.htm
  3. http://ndbooks.com/author/lawrence-ferlinghetti
  4. http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/details.php?webcastid=14208
  5. http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lawrence-Ferlinghetti
  6. http://www.artecittaamica.it/mostre/2011/0527/to7.pdf
  7. http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/24/legendary_beat_generation_bookseller_and_poet
  8. http://www.gamonline.it/?pagina=edizioni&scheda=107
  9. http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/lawrence-ferlinghetti#_