Viva Ferlinghetti scrapbook : San Francisco, Calif., 1994.

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Viva Ferlinghetti scrapbook : San Francisco, Calif., 1994.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39514732

Correspondence, manuscript and typescript poems, and tributes from the ceremony in which Price Row, a street in San Francisco's North Beach was renamed Via Ferlinghetti in honor of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and his City Lights Books. Contains original writings by Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joseph Alioto, Anne Waldman, Philip Whalen, Juvenal Acosta, Alan Kaufman, Kevin Starr, Angela Alioto, Jack Foley, and Neeli Cherkovski, with photographs by Steve Wilson. Includes the original published booklet, Viva Ferlinghetti, and a photocopy later made and sold by Ferlinghetti, which became the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit by authors, Kaufman and Diane Spencer. Correspondence concerning the dispute and settlement is also included.

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Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1919-2021

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti was an American poet and publisher, most closely associated with the Beat movement. Born in New York, Ferlinghetti suffered several family-related tragedies in his youth, and was raised in unusual circumstances. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he served in World War II, and continued his education at Columbia and The Sorbonne. He moved to San Francisco, where he co-founded City Lights book store and publishing house, which became integral wi...

Whalen, Philip.

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Philip Whalen was a Beat poet and a Buddhist Monk. From the description of Philip Whalen papers, [194-]-2001. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 57586331 Poet; associated with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, San Francisco beat writers, and Charles Olson; ordained a Buddhist monk in the 1970s; b. 1923. From the description of Philip Whalen Collection, 1958-1977. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28418352 Philip Glenn Whalen w...

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author, lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early 1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April 6, 1997. From the description of Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019390 ...

McClure, Michael.

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Michael McClure was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist, and part of the Beat Generation of poetry. He was one of five authors who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading, and became close with Jack Kerouac, being immortalized as Pat McLean in Big Sur. He is known as the Prince of the Frisco Scene. From the guide to the Michael McClure letter to Diane di Prima, September 1968, (Ohio University) San Francisco-based ...

Foley, Jack

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Alioto, Angela

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Alioto, Joseph L. (Joseph Laurence), 1916-

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Waldman, Anne, 1945-

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Poet, performer, editor, publisher, and teacher; director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project (New York); co-founder, with Allen Ginsberg, of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University. From the description of Anne Waldman papers, 1945-<2002> (bulk 1958-1998). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68914842 American poet associated with the New York School of Poetry. From the description of 100 memories, 1970. (University of Calif...

Kaufman, Alan J.

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Starr, Kevin

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Dr. Kevin Starr is the University Professor of History at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. From 1994 to 2004 he served as the California State Librarian and was honored with the title of California State Librarian Emeritus upon his retirement. His writing has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and gold and silver medals from the Commonwealth Club of California. From the description of Kevin Starr papers, 1969- (California State Library). WorldCat record id: 57710357 ...

Acosta, Juvenal

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Cherkovski, Neeli.

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