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Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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A prominent figure in the wide-open poetry movement of the 50s, Ferlinghetti gave voice to a generation that changed the face of poetry forever. Challenging the elite's definition of art and the artist's role, Ferlinghetti founded City Lights Bookstore, providing a meeting place for writers, artists, and intellectuals for over a half century. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind continues to be the most popular poetry book in the United States. His most recent work, Americus Book I was published by New Directions in 2004. Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2006 Lunch Poems is a monthly poetry reading held on the UC Berkeley campus. This reading features Lawrence Ferlinghetti. [events]...

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Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: ucberkeleyevents

Length: 48:29
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Raymantico (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
He was at D-Day too!!! I thought he only clobbered them at Nagasaki!? He really was Popeye! But yeah, that's it--I have to ask myself "why do I hate America so much?"
whizbang47 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
He was Popeye on D-Day. Is that what you hate? Stay blighted, jerkoff.
Raymantico (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Popeye's grandpappy shipping the same shop-worm poems and Baloney.
moonzinya (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
lawrence ferlinghetti ... { sigh ;}
fairyanahit (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
HIS VOICE IS LIKE A DREAM
leandralee (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Does anyone know the poem ; Running water? (And love be written on running water, not on the surice of calm lakes), of Lawrence Ferlinghetti? Does annyone have it on video? Ciao robin
leandralee (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
thank you for this video.
deathwalk60 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I love the way Lawrence reads. Can you believe it, he and Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, and others started the Beat Generation.
SecretlyWishing (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
i love this man's poetry. He's an inspirational figure in my life. Almost as prominent as Thoreau.
StJohnJen (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
My soul, sleeping through a fascist high school was awakened by a poem in a dusty anthology 'Christ Climbed Down" and, with my heart, ran away to San Francisco where, at City Lights, Lawrence presided over a Feast of Beats and Gave Voice to a Vixen -- Freedom! jrs

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