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😢For Lawrence Ferlinghetti.RIP Snuck Philip Lamantia photo in there for @vivastory from the book Beats & Company portrait of a Literary Generation by Ann Charters .Think we are close to the last of the beats , I think Gary Snyder still among the living?
vivastory What a fantastic post!! Thanks so much for including Lamantia 💙 Yes, Snyder is still alive. I think he's the last one really. McClure, di Prima & now Ferlinghetti have all passed in a year. 3y
Leftcoastzen @vivastory another reason it was a terrible year !writers you love , feel like family that you want to have forever.We have the writings , thank goodness, or badness ! 3y
vivastory Like family for sure. I used to play the recording of Ferlinghetti reading Coney Island of the Mind every year around the holidays. It was my own anti-consumerism tradition 3y
Leftcoastzen @vivastory that sounds lovely! 👍 3y
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