Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Books displayed in the window of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, with the store name in large white letters across the glass and reflections of trees and parked cars outside.

The life of poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg stand in front of sculpted figures at the Albert Memorial in South Kensington, London, in a black-and-white photo from 1965.

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American poet

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The life of poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The life of poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 2012.

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Books displayed in the window of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, with the store name in large white letters across the glass and reflections of trees and parked cars outside.

San Francisco: City Lights bookstore

Window of City Lights bookstore, San Francisco.

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg stand in front of sculpted figures at the Albert Memorial in South Kensington, London, in a black-and-white photo from 1965.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (left) and Allen Ginsberg, 1965.

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