{"id":187508,"date":"2021-02-24T07:40:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T04:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/publisher-and-poet-lawrence-ferlinghetti-dead-at-101\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T07:40:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T04:40:06","slug":"publisher-and-poet-lawrence-ferlinghetti-dead-at-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/publisher-and-poet-lawrence-ferlinghetti-dead-at-101\/","title":{"rendered":"#Publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti dead at 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti dead at 101<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st century, has died at age 101.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ferlinghetti, a San Francisco institution, died Monday at his home, his son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti said. A month shy of his 102nd birthday, Ferlinghetti died \u201cin his own room,\u201d holding the hands of his son and his son\u2019s girlfriend, \u201cas he took his last breath.\u201d The cause of death was lung disease. Ferlinghetti had received the first dose of the COVID vaccine last week, his son said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Few poets of the past 60 years were so well known, or so influential. His books sold more than 1 million copies worldwide, a fantasy for virtually any of his peers, and he ran one of the world\u2019s most famous and distinctive bookstores, City Lights. Although he never considered himself one of the Beats, he was a patron and soul mate and, for many, a lasting symbol \u2014 preaching a nobler and more ecstatic American dream.<\/p>\n

\u201cAm I the consciousness of a generation or just some old fool sounding off and trying to escape the dominant materialist avaricious consciousness of America?\u201d he asked in \u201cLittle Boy,\u201d a stream of consciousness novel published around the time of his 100th birthday<\/p>\n

He made history. Through the City Lights publishing arm, books by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and many others came out and the release of Allen Ginsberg\u2019s landmark poem \u201cHowl\u201d led to a 1957 obscenity case that broke new ground for freedom of expression.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also defied history. The Internet, superstore chains and high rents shut down numerous booksellers in the Bay Area and beyond, but City Lights remained a thriving political and cultural outlet, where one section was devoted to books enabling \u201crevolutionary competence,\u201d where employees could get the day off to attend an anti-war protest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGeneral<\/a>ly, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical,\u201d Ferlinghetti told Interview magazine in 2013. \u201cPoetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalyptic times, even if this means sounding apocalyptic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The store even endured during the coronavirus outbreak, when it was forced to close and required $300,000 to stay in business. A GoFundMe campaign quickly raised $400,000.<\/p>\n

Ferlinghetti, tall and bearded, with sharp blue eyes, could be soft-spoken, even introverted and reticent in unfamiliar situations. But he was the most public of poets and his work wasn\u2019t intended for solitary contemplation. It was meant to be recited or chanted out loud, whether in coffee houses, bookstores or at campus gatherings.<\/p>\n

His 1958 compilation, \u201cA Coney Island of the Mind<\/a>,\u201d sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the U.S. alone. Long an outsider from the poetry community, Ferlinghetti once joked that he had \u201ccommitted the sin of too much clarity.\u201d He called his style \u201cwide open\u201d and his work, influenced in part by e.e. cummings, was often lyrical and childlike: \u201cPeacocks walked\/under the night trees\/in the lost moon\/light\/when I went out\/looking for love,\u201d he wrote in \u201cConey Island.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferlinghetti also was a playwright, novelist, translator and painter and had many admirers among musicians. In 1976, he recited \u201cThe Lord\u2019s Prayer\u201d at the Band\u2019s farewell concert, immortalized in Martin Scorsese\u2019s \u201cThe Last Waltz.\u201d The folk-rock band Aztec Two-Step lifted its name from a line in the title poem of Ferlinghetti\u2019s \u201cConey Island\u201d book: \u201cA couple of Papish cats\/is doing an Aztec two-step.\u201d Ferlinghetti also published some of the earliest film reviews by Pauline Kael, who with The New Yorker became one of the country\u2019s most influential critics.<\/p>\n

He lived long and well despite a traumatic childhood. His father died five months before Lawrence was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, leaving behind a sense of loss that haunted him, yet provided much of the creative tension that drove his art. His mother, unable to cope, had a nervous breakdown two years after his father\u2019s death. She eventually disapp<\/a>eared and died in a state hospital.<\/p>\n

Ferlinghetti spent years moving among relatives, boarding homes and an orphanage before he was taken in by a wealthy New York family, the Bislands, for whom his mother had worked as a governess. He studied journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received a master\u2019s in literature from Columbia University, and a doctorate degree from the Sorbonne in Paris. His early influences included Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and Ezra Pound.<\/p>\n

Ferlinghetti hated war, because he was in one. In 1945, he was a Navy commander stationed in Japan and remembered visiting Nagasaki a few weeks after the U.S. had dropped an atom bomb. The carnage, he would recall, made him an \u201cinstant pacifist.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In the early 1950s, he settled in San Francisco and married Selden Kirby-Smith, whom he divorced in 1976. (They had two children). Ferlinghetti also became a member of the city\u2019s rising literary movement, the so-called San Francisco Renaissance, and soon helped establish a gathering place. Peter D, Martin, a sociologist, had opened a paperback store in the city\u2019s North Beach section and named it after a recent Charlie Chaplin film, \u201cCity Lights.\u201d When Ferlinghetti saw the storefront, in 1953, he suggested he and Martin become partners. Each contributed $500.<\/p>\n

Ferlinghetti later told The New York Times: \u201cCity Lights became about the only place around where you could go in, sit down, and read books without being pestered to buy something.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Beats, who had met in New York in the 1940s, now had a new base. One project was City Lights\u2019 Pocket Poets series<\/a>, which offered low-cost editions of verse, notably Ginsberg\u2019s \u201cHowl.\u201d Ferlinghetti had heard Ginsberg read a version in 1955 and wrote him: \u201cI greet you at the beginning of a great career. When do I get the manuscript?\u201d a humorous take on the message sent from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Walt Whitman upon reading \u201cLeaves of Grass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferlinghetti published \u201cHowl and Other Poems<\/a>\u201d in 1956, but customs officials seized copies of the book that were being shipped from London, and Ferlinghetti was arrested on obscenity charges. After a highly publicized court battle, a judge in 1957 ruled that \u201cHowl\u201d was not obscene, despite its sexual themes, citing the poem\u2019s relevance as a criticism of modern society. A 2010 film about the case, \u201cHowl,\u201d starred James Franco as Ginsberg and Andrew Rogers as Ferlinghetti.<\/p>\n

Ferlinghetti would also release Kerouac\u2019s \u201cBook of Dreams,\u201d prison writings by Timothy Leary and Frank O\u2019Hara\u2019s \u201cLunch Poems.\u201d Ferlinghetti risked prison for \u201cHowl,\u201d but rejected Burrough\u2019s classic \u201cNaked Lunch,\u201d worrying that publication would lead to \u201csure premeditated legal lunacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferlinghetti\u2019s eyesight was poor in recent years, but he continued to write and to keep regular hours at City Lights. The establishment, meanwhile, warmed to him, even if the affection wasn\u2019t always returned. He was named San Francisco\u2019s first poet laureate, in 1998, and City Lights was granted landmark status three years later. He received an honorary prize from the National Book Critics Circle in 2000 and five years later was given a National Book Award medal for \u201chis tireless work on behalf of poets and the entire literary community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dominant American mercantile culture may globalize the world, but it is not the mainstream culture of our civilization,\u201d Ferlinghetti said upon receiving the award. \u201cThe true mainstream is made, not of oil, but of literarians, publishers, bookstores, editors, libraries, writers and readers, universities and all the institutions that support them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2012, Ferlinghetti won the Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize from the Hungarian PEN Club. When he learned the country\u2019s right-wing government was a sponsor, he turned the award down.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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