City Lights gone out - Ferlinghetti dead at 101

By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 12:29pm |

But the Beat goes on

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Lawrence-Ferlinghetti-poet-and...

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I thought the NYTimes obit was well done, stressed who he himself was, how he himself was not a Beat

Breaking News: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and publisher who nurtured the Beat movement from his famed San Francisco bookstore, City Lights, has died. He was 101. https://t.co/3X7jjYNsN6
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 23, 2021

Here is Paris Review putting up an old interview (they'd be like his real homies ; like the NYTimes explains, he thought of himself as a bohemian, not a Beat, came to SF wearing a beret and with one bag full of belongings, after all)

“This whole idea of process is alien to me. I always disliked it. No, my poems were born full-blown, full-grown out of the air. That was the process.”

Rest in peace, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919–2021). Read more from the Art of Poetry No. 104: https://t.co/B2iRU8SHD0 pic.twitter.com/1aUN4JL2II
— The Paris Review (@parisreview) February 23, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 02/24/2021 - 6:53pm

Yeah, he was more in the Paul Bowles/William Burroughs vein - born in the teens, post-Lost Generation, father figures & mentors somewhat for the Beats.

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 02/25/2021 - 1:57am

Ferlinghetti's New York (when he wasn't bouncing around Europe et al) for want of a better place to throw this

A 1929 colorized video of construction workers on the Chrysler building in New York.

At 1,046 feet it is the tallest brick building in the world with a steel framework, and was world's tallest building for 11 months after its completion in 1930. pic.twitter.com/cGBf1fr0fK
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) February 21, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 02/28/2021 - 4:11pm

City Lights gone out - Ferlinghetti dead at 101

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