"There's always hope in love. Love and hate are viruses. Love can make a civilization bloom and hate can kill a civilization" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti is ninety-six years old today. Many happy returns of the day, Lawrence!
The quote comes from a revealing profile from San Francisco news station, KQED (including a must-see video portrait by Adam Grossberg - Ferlinghetti bemoans what's happened to his home-town, San Francisco - and all over!)
"With Lawrence Ferlinghetti's last breath, San Francisco will become a different city" ( San Francisco - A Map of Perceptions - Andrea Ponsi).
Previous Ferlinghetti birthday posts on the Allen Ginsberg Project, here, here, here and here
Currently up at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art - Legends of the Bay Area - Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The show will be up until April 5th
Ferlinghetti's next book, Writing Across The Landscape - Travel Journals (1950-2013) (edited by Giada Diano and Matthew Gleeson), will be coming out this Fall (due out from Liveright in September)
Happy Birthday to a great man- Lawrence Ferlinghetti <3
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Lawrence!
ReplyDeleteI would love to hear you read out loud. :-)
TY. Enjoy the view!
Happy Birthday to a wonderful poet. I still remember hearing you read your poetry and speak at Carnegie Hall in Pittsburgh when I was a freshmen in college. It brings a smile to my face even now.
ReplyDeletehmm thought Liveright went out of business. thanks for the blog as always.
ReplyDeleteOne spring morning in 1970, I was sitting on the bulldog sculpture in front of thre UGA student center, crowds swirling around it as they assembled for an anti-war rally.
ReplyDeleteA smiling young man appeared and handed me a well-thumbed copy of "A Coney Island of the Mind". "Here," he said, "you'll like this."
That moment encapsulates the era for me. Happy birthday, Mr. Ferlinghetti!