Ferlinghetti
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919)[1] 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 (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over one million copies.
Contents
1 Early life
2 World War II
3 Columbia University & The Sorbonne
4 San Francisco — City Lights Books
5 The Howl trial
6 The Beats
7 Poetry
8 Political engagement
9 Painting
10 Jack Kerouac Alley
11 Awards
12 In popular culture
13 Bibliography
13.1 Discography
14 See also
15 References
Early life
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York on March 24, 1919. His mother, Albertine Mendes-Monsanto born Lyons, France was of French/Portuguese Sephardic Jewish heritage. His father, Carlo Ferlinghetti, was born in Brescia, Italy in March 14, 1872. He immigrated to the United States in 1892, and was naturalized in 1896, and worked as an auctioneer in Little Italy, NYC. At some unknown point, Carlo Ferlinghetti shortened the family name to "Ferling," and Lawrence wouldn 't learn of his original name until 1942, when he had to provide a birth certificate to join the US Navy. Though he used "Ferling" for his earliest published work, Ferlinghetti reverted to the original Italian "Ferlinghetti" in 1955, when publishing his first book of poems, Pictures of the Gone World.
Ferlinghetti 's father died six months before he was born, and his mother was committed to an asylum shortly after his birth. He was raised by his French aunt Emily, former wife of Ludovico Monsanto, an uncle of his mother from the Virgin Islands who taught Spanish at the U.S. Naval Academy. Emily took Ferlinghetti to Strasbourg, France, where they lived during his first five years, with French as his first language.
After their return to the U.S.,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919)[1] 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 (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over one million copies.
Contents
1 Early life
2 World War II
3 Columbia University & The Sorbonne
4 San Francisco — City Lights Books
5 The Howl trial
6 The Beats
7 Poetry
8 Political engagement
9 Painting
10 Jack Kerouac Alley
11 Awards
12 In popular culture
13 Bibliography
13.1 Discography
14 See also
15 References
Early life
Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York on March 24, 1919. His mother, Albertine Mendes-Monsanto born Lyons, France was of French/Portuguese Sephardic Jewish heritage. His father, Carlo Ferlinghetti, was born in Brescia, Italy in March 14, 1872. He immigrated to the United States in 1892, and was naturalized in 1896, and worked as an auctioneer in Little Italy, NYC. At some unknown point, Carlo Ferlinghetti shortened the family name to "Ferling," and Lawrence wouldn 't learn of his original name until 1942, when he had to provide a birth certificate to join the US Navy. Though he used "Ferling" for his earliest published work, Ferlinghetti reverted to the original Italian "Ferlinghetti" in 1955, when publishing his first book of poems, Pictures of the Gone World.
Ferlinghetti 's father died six months before he was born, and his mother was committed to an asylum shortly after his birth. He was raised by his French aunt Emily, former wife of Ludovico Monsanto, an uncle of his mother from the Virgin Islands who taught Spanish at the U.S. Naval Academy. Emily took Ferlinghetti to Strasbourg, France, where they lived during his first five years, with French as his first language.
After their return to the U.S.,
References: Early life Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York on March 24, 1919 In March, 2012, he added his support to the movement to save historical gold-era bar, Gold Dust Lounge in San Francisco, Ca., which lost its lease in Union Square. Bibliography Pictures of the Gone World (City Lights, 1955) Poetry (enlarged, 1995) ISBN 978-0-87286-303-3 A Coney Island of the Mind ([1] New Directions, 1958) Poetry Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower (Golden Mountain Press, 1958) Broadside poem Her (New Directions, 1960) Prose One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro (City Lights, 1961) Broadside poem Starting from San Francisco (New Directions, 1961) Poetry (HC edition includes LP of author reading selections) Journal for the Protection of All Beings (City Lights, 1961) Journal Unfair Arguments with Existence (New Directions, 1963) Short Plays Where is VietNam? (Golden Mountain Press, 1963) Broadside poem Routines (New Directions, 1964) Plays Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes (1968) On the Barracks: Journal for the Protection of All Beings 2 (City Lights, 1968) Journal Tyrannus Nix? (New Directions, 1969) Poetry The Secret Meaning of Things (New Directions, 1970) Poetry The Mexican Night (New Directions, 1970) Travel journal Back Roads to Far Towns After Basho (City Lights, 1970) Poetry Love Is No Stone on the Moon (ARIF, 1971) Poetry Open Eye, Open Heart (New Directions, 1973) Poetry Who Are We Now? (New Directions, 1976) Poetry Northwest Ecolog (City Lights, 1978) Poetry Landscapes of Living and Dying (1980) ISBN 0-8112-0743-9 Over All the Obscene Boundaries (1986) Love in the Days of Rage (E A Buddha in the Woodpile (Atelier Puccini, 1993) These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 (New Directions, 1993) ISBN 0-8112-1252-1 City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (City Lights, 1995) ISBN 978-0-87286-311-8 A Far Rockaway Of The Heart (New Directions, 1998) ISBN 0-8112-1347-1 How to Paint Sunlight: Lyrics Poems & Others, 1997-2000 (New Directions, 2001) ISBN 0-8112-1463-X San Francisco Poems (City Lights Foundation, 2001) Poetry ISBN 978-1-931404-01-3 Life Studies, Life Stories (City Lights, 2003) ISBN 978-0-87286-421-4 Americus: Part I (New Directions, 2004)