As is so often the case, Ferlinghetti supplies us just what we need.
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Steve Bates
Doggerelist, cat lover, unabashed liberal. Retired musician; retired IT professional. Person with disabilities, not including GOP membership. More... -
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Well done Steve!
MandT – thanks. On top of everything else, Ferlinghetti also paints! Sorry I don’t have a link to his works; I have a plate-book of a few of them.
I love Ferlinghetti — he says everything so well and his insights are timeless.
Thanks!
Kay – me too. Did you know he’s still alive? He is an ongoing inspiration to me.
Yes, I knew he was alive! I discovered him in jr. high when a teacher called him a ‘beatnik’ and I begged my mom to take me to the book store where I spent my meager allowance on “A Coney Island of the Mind” He is amazing!!!! The best compliment I had on my poetry was that I had read too much Ferlinghetti and T.S. Eliot (another fav/influence). I cherished the ‘B’ he gave me. LOL
@mandt: I want that book!
Kay, I think you meant to address that to me. I can’t find my plate-book right at the moment, but I can point you to Ferlinghetti’s books at City Lights, which was in a very real sense his bookstore. He is, precisely, a beatnik, in the original sense (“beat” = “beatific”), and theirs was a radical movement I would rejoice to see revived. Ginsberg, Kerouac, William Burroughs, all of them gone now… except Ferlinghetti.
Sorry! I know he was a beatnik as were many others of that part of the 50s. And yeah, I read all that stuff and contend that Ferlinghetti was the best.