Synopsis
Lawrence Ferlinghetti is one of America's best known and most respected poets, a major figure of the Beat poetry scene of the 1950s and the proprietor of City Lights Books, a bookstore and publishing house that has distributed important works from Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski and many more. Raised by an immigrant couple, Ferlinghetti began writing shortly before he went into the Navy during World War II; his company was sent to Nagasaki just weeks...more