Ferlinghetti's Birthday
Not a great poet, but one of my favorites. One of the few I've ever met.
This is what Keillor's Writer's Almanac said of him today:
"It's the birthday of poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti
http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/ferlinghetti.html
(books by this author)
http://www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/oop/click_ord/listbooks.html?sid=5325&type=a&binding=&qkey=Ferlinghetti%2C+Lawrence&assoc_id=writ
born in Yonkers, New York (1919). In World War Two he was the commanding officer of a submarine chaser at the D-Day invasion. He moved to San Francisco in 1951, and, along with Peter Martin, founded the City Lights Pocket Book Shop, the first paperback bookstore in the country. The store became a center for the Beat movement, and published Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl," for which Ferlinghetti was sued for indecency. His book A Coney Island of the Mind is the largest-selling book by a living American poet."
This is what Keillor's Writer's Almanac said of him today:
"It's the birthday of poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti
http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/ferlinghetti.html
(books by this author)
http://www.booksite.com/texis/scripts/oop/click_ord/listbooks.html?sid=5325&type=a&binding=&qkey=Ferlinghetti%2C+Lawrence&assoc_id=writ
born in Yonkers, New York (1919). In World War Two he was the commanding officer of a submarine chaser at the D-Day invasion. He moved to San Francisco in 1951, and, along with Peter Martin, founded the City Lights Pocket Book Shop, the first paperback bookstore in the country. The store became a center for the Beat movement, and published Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl," for which Ferlinghetti was sued for indecency. His book A Coney Island of the Mind is the largest-selling book by a living American poet."