Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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A prominent figure in the wide-open poetry movement of the 50s, Ferlinghetti gave voice to a generation that changed the face of poetry forever. Challenging the elite's definition of art and the artist's role, Ferlinghetti founded City Lights Bookstore, providing a meeting place for writers, artists, and intellectuals for over a half century. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind continues to be the most popular poetry book in the United States. His most recent work, Americus Book I was published by New Directions in 2004. Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2006 Lunch Poems is a monthly poetry reading held on the UC Berkeley campus. This reading features Lawrence Ferlinghetti. [events]...

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Uploaded: August 21, 2007 at 2:36 pm
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Video Comments:
Raymantico (July 7, 2008 at 9:15 pm)
Popeye's grandpappy shipping the same shop-worm poems and Baloney.
whizbang47 (August 24, 2008 at 5:34 am)
He was Popeye on D-Day. Is that what you hate?
Stay blighted, jerkoff.
Raymantico (August 24, 2008 at 5:54 am)
He was at D-Day too!!!
I thought he only clobbered them at Nagasaki!?
He really was Popeye!

But yeah, that's it--I have to ask myself "why do I hate America so much?"
moonzinya (May 26, 2008 at 2:19 pm)
lawrence ferlinghetti ... { sigh ;}
fairyanahit (March 23, 2008 at 10:31 am)
HIS VOICE IS LIKE A DREAM
leandralee (February 6, 2008 at 5:14 pm)
Does anyone know the poem ; Running water? (And love be written on running water, not on the surice of calm lakes), of Lawrence Ferlinghetti?
Does annyone have it on video?
Ciao robin
leandralee (February 6, 2008 at 5:02 pm)
thank you for this video.
deathwalk60 (February 5, 2008 at 10:01 pm)
I love the way Lawrence reads. Can you believe it, he and Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, and others started the Beat Generation.
SecretlyWishing (February 4, 2008 at 2:22 am)
i love this man's poetry.

He's an inspirational figure in my life. Almost as prominent as Thoreau.
StJohnJen (February 2, 2008 at 4:41 pm)
My soul, sleeping
through a fascist high school
was awakened by a poem
in a dusty anthology
'Christ Climbed Down"
and, with my heart, ran away
to San Francisco where,
at City Lights, Lawrence presided
over a Feast of Beats
and Gave Voice
to a Vixen -- Freedom!

jrs