biography
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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (Monsanto)
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originally Lawrence Ferling
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pronunciation:
[ferlinggetee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1919– )
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| biography:
| Poet, born in New York City, USA. He studied at the universities of North Carolina, Columbia, and the Sorbonne (1948–51), then settled in San Francisco. He taught French (1951–3), and was a founder of City Lights (1952), a bookstore and publishing house. Regarded as a founder of the Beat poetry movement, as seen in A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), he was also a playwright and novelist. Later books of poetry include Open Eye, Open Heart (1973), The Populist Manifestos (1981), and A Far Rockaway of the Heart (1997). |
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