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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021): A bookseller who was a poet who was a publisher who was a writer Ferlinghetti, who published the legendary Beat poets and founded the iconic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco died on February 22 at the age of 101. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. | Cmichel67 / CC BY-SA 4.0 Over a decade ago when I was working as a radio host at KALW, a small public radio station in San Francisco, I got an email from a producer. It was a script of an opera. He was wondering if I could read a short sample from it. Lawrence Ferlinghetti had written it. Actually, the producer said “Mr Ferlinghetti is making changes as I type this.” Ferlinghetti was almost 90 at that time. He wanted to tape a session, a rough read, to hear what it was sounding like.

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