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We didn’t drive in over the bridge. That was one surprise. I remember thinking we’d see the Transamerica Pyramid piercing the fog, or the bay sparkling in the distance. Instead, when I first visited San Francisco in the eighties, we arrived by tunnel. The
BART train from Berkeley spat us out into the noisy, echoing heart of downtown. This was 1984, the city in near collapse,
AIDS a full-blown crisis the Reagan administration mocking its sufferers. As my family trudged up Kearny Street, we were stopped every few paces. Men whose clothes were in tatters asked us for money, food, ....

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and titan of the Beat era, dies at 101


Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and titan of the Beat era, dies at 101
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti outside City Lights Bookstore in 2013. (Stacey Lewis)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was the opposite of the flamboyant literary bad boys drawn to the bohemian haven he nurtured in 1950s San Francisco.
Unlike Beat novelist Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg, he was known for neither public drunkenness nor public nudity. Tall and lean, he swam daily and biked to work at City Lights, the San Francisco bookshop that became a landmark of intellectual freedom not long after he co-founded it seven decades ago. ....

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Poet, Beat-era titan Ferlinghetti dies at 101


Poet, Beat-era titan Ferlinghetti dies at 101
American Beat poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti, left, and Allen Ginsberg at the Albert Memorial in South Kensington, London, on June 11, 1965. (M. Stroud/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/TNS) M. Stroud
Published: 2/23/2021 3:52:13 PM
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the San Francisco poet, publisher and bookseller who played a leading role in West Coast literary history as a champion of Beat writer Allen Ginsberg and co-founder of the legendary City Lights bookstore, has died at his Bay Area home.
Ferlinghetti died Monday evening, according to Starr Sutherland, a friend who is working on a documentary on the fabled bookstore. The cause was interstitial lung disease, his son Lorenzo told The Washington Post. Ferlinghetti was 101. ....

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