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Missive from a living fossil: Little Boy, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, reviewed

23 March 2019

9:00 AM

23 March 2019

9:00 AM

In his adopted city of San Francisco, the poet, publisher and painter Lawrence Ferlinghetti is venerated to levels nearing those of patron sainthood. In 1954, he co-founded the bookshop-cum-press City Lights on Columbus Avenue, which cleaves North Beach from Chinatown on the top right tip of the San Franciscan peninsula.

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