He was the author of over 30 other collections of poetry, including Time of Useful Consciousness (2012), Poetry as Insurgent Art (2005), San Francisco Poems (2001), How to Paint Sunlight: Lyric Poems and Others, 1997– 2000, A Far Rockaway of the Heart (1997), These Are My Rivers: New and Selected Poems, 1955– 1993, and Endless Life: Selected Poems (1981).

In 1998, he was named the first poet laureate of San Francisco.įerlinghetti’s most famous collection, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958) , has sold well over one million copies in America and abroad. He then moved to San Francisco, California, where played a key role in sparking the San Francisco literary renaissance of the 1950s and was essential to the establishment of the subsequent Beat movement. He earned his MA from Columbia University in 1948, and completed his PhD at the University of Paris in 1951. After his discharge, Ferlinghetti took advantage of the G.I. He attended Riverdale Country Day School, Mount Hermon, a preparatory academy in Massachusetts, and the University of North Carolina, where he majored in journalism. He had a tumultuous youth, parts of which were spent in France, an orphanage in Chappaqua, New York, and in the mansion of the wealthy Bisland family in Bronxville, New York. When Ferlinghetti discovered the lengthier name as an adult, he took it as his own. His father, an Italian immigrant, had shortened the family name upon arrival in America. Poet, playwright, publisher, and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born Lawrence Monsanto Ferling on Main Yonkers, New York.

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