I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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About Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Lawrence FerlinghettiAnyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.