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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poems | Quotes | Articles

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Biography...Lawrence Ferlinghetti is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (New York: New Directions, 1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1 million copies.

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Quote Left We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. Quote Right
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Quote Left And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. Quote Right
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