Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919 - present)

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Born in New York, Lawrence Ferlinghetti earned a doctoral degree in poetry at the Sorbonne in Paris with a dissertation entitled 'The City as Symbol in Modern Poetry: In Search of a Metropolitan Tradition'. In fact he was about to become part of a metropolitan tradition himself, because after leaving Paris he moved to San Francisco, which was about to discover the Beat Generation. Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin started a magazine there called 'City Lights,' named after the Charlie Chaplin movi.. Continue..

Some of Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poems

Constantly Risking Absurdity

Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning

A Vast Confusion

Bird With Two Right Wings

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace

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	And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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