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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Remembering the poet, publisher, and free-speech crusader behind the rise of the Beats.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died on Monday at the age of 101, was one of the key figures in 20
th century American culture. He was as responsible as any single other person for the rise of the Beats, the end of obscenity laws, and, not least, the transformation of San Francisco from a backwater province to a vibrant artistic center.
He did all this through the creation and flourishing of a bookstore, City Lights which, seven decades after its founding, in 1953, remains one of the country’s great literary bookstores and a publishing house as well.
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The bookstore from its outset was an intellectual hangout for the budding generation of writers, painters, and poets who lived and gathered in San Francisco’s North Beach district. When one of the poets, Allen Ginsberg, read portions of a new work called “Howl” at a nearby gallery the night of Oct. 7, 1955, causing an instant sensation among the cognoscenti, Ferlinghetti who had just started his publis ....

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