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Title: Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Added: Aug 21, 2007
Author: UCBerkeleyEvents
Duration: 48:29
Description:
A prominent figure in the wide-open poetry movement of the 50s, Ferlinghetti gave voice to a generation that changed the face of poetry forever. Challenging the elite's definition of art and the artist's role, Ferlinghetti founded City Lights Bookstore, providing a meeting place for writers, artists, and intellectuals for over a half century. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind continues to be the most popular poetry book in the United States. His most recent work, Americus Book I was published by New Directions in 2004. Lunch Poems: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2006 Lunch Poems is a monthly poetry reading held on the UC Berkeley campus. This reading features Lawrence Ferlinghetti. [events]...
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Youtube Comments: 31
pala3000 Says:
Oct 14, 2007 - Terrific video
blairtoo Says:
Oct 15, 2007 - what a treat this video was.
kimmijo Says:
Oct 26, 2007 - VERY COOL!
sriswan Says:
Nov 29, 2007 - my fav book Coney....what a great treat
Berto182 Says:
Jan 25, 2008 - Awesome
Poconnor82803 Says:
Jan 27, 2008 - "with their lives our dreams are sown"
StJohnJen Says:
Feb 2, 2008 - My soul, sleepingthrough a fascist high schoolwas awakened by a poem in a dusty anthology'Christ Climbed Down"and, with my heart, ran away to San Francisco where,at City Lights, Lawrence presidedover a Feast of Beats and Gave Voiceto a Vixen -- Freedom!jrs
deathwalk60 Says:
Feb 5, 2008 - I love the way Lawrence reads. Can you believe it, he and Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, and others started the Beat Generation.
leandralee Says:
Feb 6, 2008 - thank you for this video.
leandralee Says:
Feb 6, 2008 - Does anyone know the poem ; Running water? (And love be written on running water, not on the surice of calm lakes), of Lawrence Ferlinghetti?Does annyone have it on video?Ciao robin
fairyanahit Says:
Mar 23, 2008 - HIS VOICE IS LIKE A DREAM
Raymantico Says:
Jul 7, 2008 - Popeye's grandpappy shipping the same shop-worm poems and Baloney.
whizbang47 Says:
Aug 23, 2008 - He was Popeye on D-Day. Is that what you hate?Stay blighted, jerkoff.
Raymantico Says:
Aug 23, 2008 - He was at D-Day too!!!I thought he only clobbered them at Nagasaki!?He really was Popeye!But yeah, that's it--I have to ask myself "why do I hate America so much?"
izovire Says:
Jan 9, 2009 - The seagulls were freaky at first. But the poem slowly worked it out.. Very inspiring is poetry that involves astronomy...
dollydharma Says:
Jan 16, 2009 - Here here!
Hendrixleft Says:
Apr 30, 2009 - That is amazing to listen to... i found a site that has cool writing and poetry also it is ColorsAndSounds dot
thinazzabird Says:
Sep 6, 2009 - i read a little of the prose of the great wit nancy mitford at channel thinazzabird please drop by
tattoofthesun Says:
Nov 22, 2010 - he says exaggerations! the truth from a true poet
tattoofthesun Says:
Nov 22, 2010 - also WOW WOW WOW that last poem...... the ideas of birds, flight, the american Eagle for God's sake the imagery is amazingly intertwined... flying, hijacking, the 3rd world, the 3rd world war just WOW what connections, the man has it all the voice and all
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oopinbopin Says:
May 4, 2011 - why didn't anyone help him out, and get a better lamp for him?
erikis894 Says:
Sep 21, 2011 - A prominent figure in the wide-open poetry movement of the 50s, Ferlinghetti
lamontmon Says:
Feb 22, 2012 - I think Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a brilliant man












gahm707 Says:
Sep 13, 2007 - that man is a national treasure. thank you so very much for this...