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and spoken word. By Jonah Raskin | SONOMA COUNTY, Calif — He was a poet, a painter, a publisher, and a bookstore owner who helped to give birth to the writers of the Beat Generation, especially to the raucous work of Allen Ginsberg. Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded City Lights Books in 1953, along with fellow New Yorker, Peter Martin, who soon departed from San Francisco and returned to the East. Ferlinghetti died on February 23, 2021, at the age of 101. His Coney Island of the Mind has sold more than a million copies since it was first published in 1958. Two years earlier, he published Gins...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dead at 101 Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dead at 101 The Beat poet and founder of City Lights bookstore and imprint inspired artists from Bob Dylan to Cyndi Lauper Kory Grow, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The poet was known for stacking small fractured lines on top of each other in unique geometric shapes like Jenga towers, with each thought supporting the ones above it. His best-known collection of poems, 1958’s A Coney Island of the Mind, presented vivid images in the language of his day, describing Jesus Christ as “a kind of carpenter from some square-type place lik...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary citadel of San Francisco, dies at age 101 Published February 23 Share on Facebook Print article Lawrence Ferlinghetti, an acclaimed poet and longtime proprietor of City Lights, the San Francisco bookstore and avant-garde publishing house that catapulted the Beat Generation to fame and helped establish the city as a center of literary and cultural revolution, died Feb. 22 at his home in San Francisco. He was 101. The cause was interstitial lung disease, said his son, Lorenzo. Intensely private and fiercely political, Ferlinghetti became a household name i...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and titan of the Beat era, dies at 101 Elaine Woo © (Stacey Lewis / Stacey Lewis) Lawrence Ferlinghetti outside City Lights Bookstore in 2013. (Stacey Lewis) Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the opposite of the flamboyant literary bad boys drawn to the bohemian haven he nurtured in 1950s San Francisco. Unlike Beat novelist Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg, he was known for neither public drunkenness nor public nudity. Tall and lean, he swam daily and biked to work at City Lights, the San Francisco bookshop that became a landmark of intellectual free...