Lawrence Ferlinghetti
American Beat poet and founder of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. His A Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling poetry collections in American history.
Works
- Pictures of the Gone WorldShort numbered poems exploring urban scenes, love, politics, and personal experience
- A Coney Island of the MindPostmodern prose poems exploring imagination, desire, and consciousness in modern life
- Starting from San FranciscoAutobiographical essays and poetry reflections on San Francisco beat culture
- These Are My RiversTravel poems and geographic meditations across landscapes and memory