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BusinessWorld March 3, 2021 | 12:02 am LAWRENCE Ferlinghetti, the poet and bookstore owner whose publication of Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl in 1956 led to a landmark obscenity trial that spotlighted the Beat literary movement, died at the age of 101. He died on Feb. 22 at his home in San Francisco, according to The Washington Post, citing his son Lorenzo. The cause was lung disease. Mr. Ferlinghetti’s City Lights became the nation’s first all-paperback bookstore ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and bookstore owner whose publication of Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl in 1956 led to a landmark obscenity trial that spotlighted the Beat literary movement, has died. He was 101. He died on Feb 22 at his home in San Francisco, according to the Washington Post, citing his son Lorenzo. The cause was lung disease. Ferlinghetti’s City Lights became the nation’s first all-paperback bookstore when it opened in San Francisco’s North Beach section in 1953. Since ...