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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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''In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet. A Coney Island of the Mind (l. 20-23). . . New American Poetry, The, 1945-1960. Donald M. Allen, ed. (1960) Grove Press.
the people of the world
exactly at the moment when
they first attained the title of
'suffering humanity'''
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''freeways fifty lanes wide
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet. A Coney Island of the Mind (l. 20-23). . . New American Poetry, The, 1945-1960. Donald M. Allen, ed. (1960) Grove Press.
on a concrete continent
spaced with bland billboards
illustrating imbecile illusions of happiness''
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''Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.''
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet, publisher. A Coney Island of the Mind, sct. 15 (1958).
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''Constantly risking absurdity
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet, publisher. A Coney Island of the Mind, sect. 15 (1958).
and death
whenever he performs
above the heads
of his audience
the poet like an acrobat
climbs on rime
to a high wire of his own making.''
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''Beauty stands and waits
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet. A Coney Island of the Mind (l. 20-23). . . New American Poetry, The, 1945-1960. Donald M. Allen, ed. (1960) Grove Press.
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap''
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''The pennycandystore beyond the El
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919), U.S. poet. A Coney Island of the Mind (l. 20-23). . . Postmoderns, The; the New American Poetry Revised. Donald Allen and George F. Butterick, eds. (1982) Grove Press.
is where I first
fell in love
with unreality''
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