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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dead at 101
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dead at 101
The Beat poet and founder of City Lights bookstore and imprint inspired artists from Bob Dylan to Cyndi Lauper
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The poet was known for stacking small fractured lines on top of each other in unique geometric shapes like Jenga towers, with each thought supporting the ones above it. His best-known collection of poems, 1958’s
A Coney Island of the Mind, presented vivid images in the language of his day, describing Jesus Christ as “a kind of carpenter from some square-type place like Galilee … claiming he is hip” and Morris Graves’ mystic paintings of the Pacific Northwest as “a wild white nest in the true mad north of introspection.” Ever the experimenter, his late Sixties anthology,
Poet and Beat movement bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies aged 101
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Henny Ray Abrams/AP)
Poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of the leading figures of the Beat movement, has died at the age of 101.
The City Lights bookshop, which he founded in 1953, said in a statement on its website that he died on Monday evening.
His son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti told the Associated Press the cause of death was lung disease and that he had received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine last week.
Ferlinghetti printed works by influential poets and authors including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs.