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Poetic legacy of Ferlinghetti passes through Tallahassee
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American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919–2021
Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1960s (Photo credit–Elsa Dorfman)
Ferlinghetti’s poetry provided a glimpse of the restlessness and rebelliousness of generations that emerged from and after the Second World War, who felt strongly the possibilities of global modern life and, at the same time, the terrible constrictedness of the dominant politics and culture in the Cold War era. His work often gave voice to the existing, but suppressed opposition to the established order of those years and sought to unmask, in poetic form, a portion of the actual social and political conditions.
Ferlinghetti was, so to speak, a “conscientious objector” in regard to the conformist and anticommunist American culture of the 1950s, and his early poetry collections such as
Commentary: Witty and profound, Ferlinghetti s words live on
Robert Seltzer, For the Express-News
March 5, 2021
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti was everything a poet should be witty and quirky and profound.
And, oh yes, durable.
The cause was interstitial lung disease, his son told the Associated Press.
“Lawrence probably started hundreds of thousands of people reading his poetry,” poet and essayist Michael McClure told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2003. “They read his poetry first and then they went on to read more poetry.”
To appreciate Ferlinghetti, we must appreciate the era from which he sprang. He was part of the Beat Generation, among the greatest outpourings of creativity in American literature. The writers were hip and irreverent, their prose and poetry approximating the freewheeling rhythms of jazz, a style that was casual but disciplined.
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