Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet And Small-Press Publisher, Dies At 101 : NPR

Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died in San Francisco. He was 101. Ferlinghetti is probably best known for three things: his Beat poetry, his San Francisco bookstore and small press, and his defense of the First Amendment in a famous court case.

His most famous work is a 1958 collection of poetry called A Coney Island of the Mind. In it, he compares the horrors depicted in Francisco Goya’s paintings of the Napoleonic wars to scenes of post-World War II America.

Source: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet And Small-Press Publisher, Dies At 101 : NPR