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2 giorni fa · They read their work, sometimes to the accompaniment of progressive jazz, in such Beat strongholds as the Coexistence Bagel Shop and Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. The verse was frequently chaotic and liberally sprinkled with obscenities and frank references to sex, all intended to liberate poetry ...
3 giorni fa · Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.”. What follows is a syllabus, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s death, of some literary works with jazz at their center which have given “special overtones” to words. *. Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues.
4 giorni fa · Weldon Kees, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and James Laughlin all vied to publish her first American book, under the name of Levertov. The distance she traveled, poetically, to arrive at that volume, called Here and Now (1957), can be measured by a poem from each book on the same theme.
1 giorno fa · I agreed with Lawrence Ferlinghetti that there was a decline in the quality of Ginsberg’s poetry in the last decade or so of his life, but that as a performer he was spot on. One Kerouac biographer told me that he thought that my Ginsberg book was the best book about Ginsberg, but when I asked him to say that in public he refused.
2 giorni fa · Lawrence Ferlinghetti, an American poet and co-founder of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house, published "Pity the Nation" in his collection "A Coney Island of the Mind" in 1958. While Ferlinghetti did not write "Pity the Nation" himself, he included it in his collection, showcasing his admiration for Gibran's work and highlighting the poem's relevance to contemporary social and ...
6 giorni fa · Potom bude uveden dokument Lawrence (2021, 66 minut), který natočily italské režisérky Giada Diano a Elisa Polimeni, jež s Ferlinghettim pojilo dvacetileté přátelství. Ve filmu Ferlinghetti vypráví svůj příběh a přidává bláznivé zážitky generace beatniků. Film bude uveden v angličtině s italskými titulky.
5 giorni fa · Dust is the Only Secret: Assent to Life also contains excerpts from the work of writers who inspire Ms. Ogilvie, a centuries-wide pantheon that includes John Keats, Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop as well as Leonard Cohen, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Albert Einstein.
