Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti ( born March 24, 1919 in Yonkers, New York ) is an American writer and poet of the Beat Generation.

Life

Ferlinghetti was raised in France. He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he completed the journalism in 1941 with the degree of BA from. During World War II he joined the Navy. Later he was active in the movement against the Vietnam War and received his doctorate from the Sorbonne with a thesis on the symbol of the city in the seal of modernity. He opened the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, which became the meeting place of avant-garde writers whose works he moved to the part. The bookstore was in 1954 extended to the City Books -Verlag. With his City Lights Press, he issued a contemporary avant-garde poetry. In 1956 he moved Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl band.

His own poems are examples of funded him beat poetry, which has an anti-capitalist change in American society and the establishment of a counter-culture to the target. He had literary influence among others on the Beat poet Harold Norse. In Ferlinghetti publications it is clear that he considers a political opinion of the artists and authors to be necessary. Even he has his political and social commitment from his poetry collection Starting San Francisco ( 1961). In the 1960s, he participated in two magazines that dealt with the Beat literature, Beatitude and the Journal For The Protection Of All Beings. He also edited the City Lights Journal.

The Italian band together Timoria has the title Ferlinghetti Blues created with it (found in the album El Topo Grand Hotel), in which the poet of his poems aloud.

In October 2012 it was announced that Ferlinghetti was awarded by the Hungarian section of the PEN Association Janus Pannonius Price rejected. He attributed this to the perceived him as authoritarian and anti-democratic changes in Hungary since the re-election of Viktor Orban 2010.

Works

  • Rough notes from the Pacific Northwest. Ecological bearings and bucolic Ekologen ( Northwest Ecolog, City Lights, 1978), translated v. Michael Mundhenk, places 1988.
  • A Coney Iceland of consciousness. Poems ( bilingual, with an afterword by Alexander Schmitz ). City Lights Press, Wenzendorf 2001, ISBN 978-3-936271-01-0
  • A Coney Iceland of the Mind. Poems ( bilingual). Luchterhand, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-630-62058-2 ( annexed: A Far Rockaway of the Heart ).
  • The light from Big Sur and other poems. Edition AQ, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-923588-69-5.
  • Poetry as insurgent art to. New Directions Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-8112-1719-4.
  • These are my rivers. New and selected poems; From 1955 to 1993. New Directions Press, New York 1993, ISBN 0-8112-1252-1.
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