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Page 8. #quotesofnote
#vintage There is something about the charm of an original edition .I know the contents have been reprinted in another edition that I own.So I paid $4 bucks for it , note the original price on the back.😁Love early New Directions & Ferlinghetti.It was trade credit though.
😢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?
A banned books week post .Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of City Lights window , his banned book display.Sometime in the 50s .
City Lights published Allen Ginsbergs Howl , which was subjected to an obscenity trial.On October 3,1957 Judge Clayton Horn ruled that the poem was not obscene.I miss City Lights !Another great indie still around & doing mail order .Treasures are on their site especially if you like Beat Generation material.
The sun the sun
comes around the corner
like a shining knight of old
galloping over the landscape
on the horses of morning
And shaking his lance over us
on trance of night
awakens us to speak or sing
to banish death and darkness
And each steed a word
each verb a stallion
reared up against all ignorance
Untamed rampant radicals
in dictionaries of light
Dictionaries of Light, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#lawrenceferlinghetti #dictionariesoflight
Recipe for Happiness in Khabarovsk or Anyplace
One grand boulevard with trees
with one grand cafe in sun
with strong black coffee in very small cups.
One not necessarily very beautiful
man or woman who loves you.
One fine day.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Artwork by Lorenzo Mattotti
#lawrenceferlinghetti #poetry #beautiful #love
