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Show Transcript I m in charge of people that want to stay safe. E. J. Fry is the manager of Six Gallery in the East Village. She says her entire staff is vaccinated and feel safe at work for now. She will not require her staff or customers to wear a mask. At this point in my life, I m not wearing a mask and I m not requiring people to wear a mask if things change, maybe that s the road we go down, but it s confusing and it s it s I m just taking it one hour at a time, fry says she hopes the people who come through her doors. Mask lists are vaccinated, but now she has to weigh her options when it comes to personal choice or requiring masks. I want people to feel comfortable and I want people to make their own choices. I want everybody to get vaccinated sticks had the clothes last year,
Gary Kamiya April 21, 2021Updated: April 21, 2021, 9:29 am
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Bookstore, led a fight to change the name of Adler Place to Jack Kerouac Alley. City Lights Bookstore is now at Columbus Avenue and Jack Kerouac Alley in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. Photo: Scott Sommerdorf, The Chronicle 1987
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an essential part of San Francisco’s literary scene from 1953, the year he and Peter Martin opened City Lights Pocket Book Shop, to Feb. 22, 2021, when he died at the patriarchal age of 101. Not even Herb Caen, who filed his daily Chronicle columns for nearly 60 years, can match the longevity of Ferlinghetti’s influence on their beloved (and in both cases, adopted) city.
It was the poem that defined a generation. Howl, the defiantly gay manifesto that Allen Ginsberg read aloud for the first time at a Six Gallery public reading in San Francisco in 1955, railed against the life-snuffing hetero-oppressive conformity of the 1950s.
Filled with anger and rage, Howl bemoans the causes of addiction as it simultaneously celebrates Walt Whitman, Ginsberg s Beat Generation comrades, cum, Bach, jazz and jism, the Bible, and a litany of transgressive acts. Hearing it read aloud by Ginsberg, in a voice in which heartbreak and fury intermingle, is an experience like no other.
That the poem s coming out party, so to speak, came just a few months after the somewhat closeted Leonard Bernstein s 40-minute opera,
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Kevin Canfield April 12, 2021
“Mule Kick Blues” by Michael McClure
We should never assume that a poet’s words are autobiographical, but it seems clear that Michael McClure’s irreverent verse about mortality came from a deeply personal place.
“TO GROW OLD IS A JOY PRECEDING THE BIG ONE,” McClure, the famed Bay Area writer who was 87 when he died in May, writes in this evocative collection of “last poems.” “Death is a dark chocolate cake,/ sweet, and filled with deep blue tortures.”
Intelligent, affable and flecked with unconventional typography as in previous books, McClure capitalizes numerous words and arranges others to run vertically down the page “Mule Kick Blues” is an estimable coda to a storied career.