...I went to a public free reading by Ferlinghetti in the mid-80s, in Montreal, at McGill University...
One poem he recited, a snapshot of an Italian girl "who does not have a lover this year," sticks in my memory... wish I could find it...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/ ... i-obituary
https://allpoetry.com/Lawrence-Ferlinghetti
Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies
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Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies
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sad news, a great poet and a real nice person, worked for him part time in 1973 at city light books.
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