Geburtsdatum | Montag, 24. März 1919 |
Geburtsort | Yonkers, New York, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. The author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day". |
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
