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Poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped launch the Beat movement, passes away at 101

Poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped launch the Beat movement, passes away at 101
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In 2012, Ferlinghetti won the Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize from the Hungarian PEN Club. When he learned the country s right-wing government was a sponsor, he turned the award down.
SAN FRANCISCO: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st century, has died at age 101.
Ferlinghetti, a San Francisco institution, died Monday at his home, his son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti said. A month shy of his 102nd birthday, Ferlinghetti died in his own room, holding the hands of his son and his son s girlfriend, as he took his last breath. The cause of death was lung disease. Ferlinghetti had received the first dose of the Covid vaccine last week, his so ....

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet who founded City Lights bookshop, epicentre of the Beat movement – obituary

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet who founded City Lights bookshop, epicentre of the Beat movement – obituary
He published Kerouac and Ginsberg and helped to establish San Francisco as a hub of Fifties and Sixties counterculture
Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1998
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who has died aged 101, was a poet who, as founder of the celebrated City Lights bookstore and publishing house in San Francisco, was a key player in the Beat movement. He was immortalised in Jack Kerouac’s novel Big Sur.
City Lights, the first all-paperback bookshop in the US, was established in 1953 as a forum for political dissidence and poetic debate. It exploded into the national consciousness when Ferlinghetti was arrested and charged under the Obscenity Act for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s talismanic poem of gay sex, artistic consciousness and spirituality, “Howl”. ....

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D-Day Veteran Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet and Founder of City Lights, Dead at 101

D-Day Veteran Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet and Founder of City Lights, Dead at 101
FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2005 file photo, author Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads a poem after he was awarded the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at the National Book Awards in New York. Ferlinghetti, one of the last links to the early days of the Beat poetry movement, never doubted the artistry of Bob Dylan or his worthiness of the Nobel prize. Ferlinghetti said that decades ago he had hoped the singer-songwriter would release his material in print form. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File) ....

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights, dead at 101

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights, dead at 101
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Bookstore, which he co-founded, with Peter D. Martin, in 1953.John O’Hara / The Chronicle 2001Show MoreShow Less
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Caffe Trieste in North Beach in 2006.Deanne Fitzmaurice / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s copy of T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets,” his most treasured book, was given to him by the mother of his girlfriend in Greenwich Village in 1943.Courtesy Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2017Show MoreShow Less
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti with copies of “Howl and Other Poems” in 1957.Bob Campbell / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less ....

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