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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and political activist who helped launch the Beat movement, died from interstitial lung disease at his home in San Francisco on Monday, his daughter Julie Sasse ...
Ferlinghetti published many of the Beat poets and is considered by some as a Beat poet as well. [15] Yet Ferlinghetti did not consider himself to be a Beat poet, as he said in the 2013 documentary Ferlinghetti: Rebirth of Wonder: "Don't call me a Beat. I never was a Beat poet." [15] [16] Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 2012 at Caffe Trieste
Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982 [1]) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist.He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement.
Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth ...
In 1961, his book The Big Beat Scene was published, surveying pop music at the dawn of the "Swinging Sixties". It was reprinted by Music Mentor Press in 2010, with additional comments. [ 9 ] Ellis's novel, Myself For Fame (1964), about a fictional pop star, has a chapter set in Liverpool that seems to recount his experiences with "The Beetles ...
Robert Garnell Kaufman (April 18, 1925 – January 12, 1986) was an American Beat poet and surrealist as well as a jazz performance artist and satirist. [1] In France, where his poetry had a large following, he was known as the Black American Rimbaud.
Joanne Kyger (November 19, 1934 – March 22, 2017) was an American poet.The author of over 30 books of poetry and prose, Kyger was associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, Black Mountain, and the New York School.
David Meltzer (February 17, 1937 – December 31, 2016) was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as "one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians". [1]