Known for unconventional views, rambunctious behavior and beautiful contributions to a revolutionary literary movement, poet Allen Ginsberg was anything but ordinary. He died on April 5, 1997, shortly after a liver cancer diagnosis, but became an unforgettable figure in American literature.
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Poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped launch the Beat movement, passes away at 101
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In 2012, Ferlinghetti won the Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize from the Hungarian PEN Club. When he learned the country s right-wing government was a sponsor, he turned the award down.
SAN FRANCISCO: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st century, has died at age 101. Ferlinghetti, a San Francisco institution, died Monday at his home, his son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti said. A month shy of his 102nd birthday, Ferlinghetti died in his own room, holding the hands of his son and his son s girlfriend, as he took his last breath. The cause of death was lung disease. Ferlinghetti had received the first dose of the Covid vaccine last week, his son said Tuesday.
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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
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