LawrenceFerlinghetti

Biography
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919 Bronxville, New York, USA – 2021 San Francisco, California, USA) was a poet, novelist, playwright, bookseller, publisher, painter, activist, and founder of the San Francisco-based City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, an independent bookstore that became a landmark for the Beat Generation in the 1950s. In 1955, Ferlinghetti launched the Pocket Poets Series, a collection of paperback volumes to be easily disseminated, making poems from around the world accessible to a broader audience. Reversing the cliché of intellectualism in favor of a democratization of poetry was a crucial political stance for Ferlinghetti. The series began with his own Pictures of the Gone World, with translations by Kenneth Rexroth. The fourth volume was Allen Ginsberg’s infamous Howl. In 1956, Ferlinghetti was arrested in a First Amendment trial on charges of distributing indecent material. The notorious court case revolving around freedom of speech and expression was eventually won by Ferlinghetti the following year. He was an anarchist sympathizer and a committed activist for multiple issues of his time, such as the Cuban Revolution and the Vietnam War. Ferlinghetti’s bibliography is extensive. His second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), has been widely recognized as his masterpiece and has been translated into nine languages. With his straightforward poetry, Ferlinghetti critically engaged with people from different backgrounds, borrowing visual impressions and images from American culture and modern jazz. Ferlinghetti was connected to Fluxus through Francesco Conz in Verona, who particularly supported Ferlinghetti’s interest in painting. In Verona, he coined the term “Fluxare,” meaning “to make love without touching.” A retrospective of his painting was held at the Museo di Roma (2010), and his works are in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Ferlinghetti was named San Francisco’s Poet Laureate in 1998; he received numerous other awards and honors, such as the Poetry Society of America’s Frost Medal (2003), a National Book Award (2005), and a John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry (2007).
Artworks (65)
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Vulva Vidi Vici), 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (La bella donna grassa), 2007 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (The little girl), 2005 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Take me home with you), 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Sono merché poeta), 2005 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Do not enter), 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sogno?, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Cameriere! Caffè con grappa per…, 2005 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Untitled, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Le Brosse, 2002 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Have you read Dante? E la ultima, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Ti voglio bene. Ti voglio!), 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Extra Virgin), 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
!MAMMA MIA!, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Make Love Not War!, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Death to the State), 2005 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Abraham Lincoln blinded by the… - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Vuoi Fluxare con me 'sta notte), 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Waiting for the second coming, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (El hombre invisible), 2005 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Untitled - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I Flux, You Flux, We Flux, We All Flux For…, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Holy land war zone, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Happy couple), 2006 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Caos a caos, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (I Drive Men Wild), 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (I love men), 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Watch out for men, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Hippies use side door, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Holy land refugees 2008, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
There's a virus in my emails, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Dreaming of Mary Magdalene, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Rogues Gallery, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
To Fuck Flux Is To Love Again!?, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I Have Seen the Best Minds of My Generation…, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
If you don't like heaven, how about une saison…, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Amsterdam 1980-1981?), 2005 - Robert Delford Brown, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,…
Untitled, 2001/02 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Fuoco a Fuoco, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Untitled, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Da Keraoacccccc (Ti-Jean)), 2005 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Il verbo Fluxare, 2001 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (U.S. flag destroyed by it´s own…, 2005 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
La lotta continua, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (George F. Maciunas) - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Uno piano per fare rivoluzione, 2002 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Due tipi perduti ogli stati uniti), 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Vuoi Fluxare con me ´sta notte?), 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (With Baudelaire...), 2005 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Three Wise Guys Welcome the Bambino, 2001 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Read my blog!, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Flux for Peace, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Untitled, 2001 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Not too smart but he'll do, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Françoise Janicot
Il papa di niente, 2001 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Non sono sobrio?) - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I Am You?, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Google can't find us, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Be Here Now!, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
???, 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Underwear (Take Me Home With You?), 2008 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
La vide es sueño, 2000 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Untitled, 2006 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Creazione del Verbo Fluxare, 2005 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Baby Jesus, 2006