Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born the March 24th 1919) is a American Poète , more known under the auspices of the joint owner of the Librairie City Lights Books, and of a Publisher of the same name which made appear literary work of the poets of the Beat Generation , including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

Biography

Ferlinghetti is born from a family of Immigré S Sépharade of Italian-Portuguese origin with Yonkers (New York). It there attends the school Mount Hermon and gains the row of Eagle Scout. Later, it continues its studies with the Université of Chapel Hill in North Carolina, then becomes Officier in the marine of the United States during the Second world war. After the war, it obtains a Diplôme Master with the Université Columbia and a Doctorat of the Sorbonne. Whereas it is student with Paris, it meets Kenneth Rexroth, which later persuades it to go to San Francisco to benefit from the increasing literary scene in the area.

Between 1951 and 1953 it teaches the French, turned into to critical arts persons, and painted. In 1953, Ferlinghetti and Peter D. Martin open a bookstore, which they call City Lights according to a Magazine of Cinéma that Martin started. Two years later, after Martin left San Francisco to go to New York, Ferlinghetti opens a publisher specialized in Poésie, and whose most famous publication is Howl of Allen Ginsberg. However, in spite of the excellence of this work, it is confiscated and censured by the authorities, and is the subject of a historical Procès.

Ferlinghetti has a property in a rather wild area of the coastal California, Big On (this area also inspired part of the poetry of Jack Kerouac). He appreciates outward journey in nature, where he can test a Spiritualité liberal E. These aspects of its character pushed it to create friendships with several Buddhist American, of which Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Politique lies, it was described as a moral Anarchiste, engaged in its Communauté, but it as noted as, in his opinion, the Humanité is not yet ready to live completely in conformity with the Anarchisme; consequently, he prefers the kind of social Démocratie modelled in the Scandinavian countries .

Its poetry

The the most known work poetic of Ferlinghetti is Coney Island off the Mind , which was translated into new Langue S. In 1998 it is named Poet Laureate of San Francisco (a price whose equivalent does not exist in French but who resembles a nomination with the French Academy). It continues today to write poetry and always takes part in the operation of the bookstore and its Publisher. Not being satisfied only to engage in the Literature, Ferlinghetti also continues to paint and its table X is often exposed in the galleries and the Musée S in San Francisco and elsewhere.

The poetry of Ferlinghetti often approaches the large policy and the social Débat S. It also tries to defy the current perception of the role of the Artiste in the world. The Italian group Timoria devoted to him a Chanson, entitled Ferlinghetti Blues (of their album El Topo Large Hotel ), and Ferlinghetti itself recorded there one of its Poème S.

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