Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is a poet who is best known as the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house, which published early literary works of the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

Writing

• Pictures of the Gone World (City Lights Books, 1955)
• A Coney Island of the Mind (City Lights Books, (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1958)
• Her (New Directions, 1960)
• Unfair Arguments with Existence (WW Norton, 1963)
• Starting from San Francisco (New Directions, 1967)
• Routines (New Directions, 1968)
• The Secret Meaning of Things (New Directions, 1968)
• Tyrannus Nix? (WW Norton, 1969)
• The Mexican Night (New Directions, 1970)
• Back Roads to Far Places (WW Norton, 1971)
• Open Eye, Open Heart (New Directions, 1972)
• Who Are We Now? (New Directions, 1976)
• Northwest Ecolog (City Lights, 1978)
• Landscapes of Living and Dying (WW Norton, 1980)
• Literary San Francisco: A Pictoral History from its Beginnings to the Present Day (HarperCollins, 1971)(with Nancy J. Peters)
• A Trip to Italy and France (New Directions, 1981)
• Endless Life: Selected Poems (WW Norton, 1981)
• Seven Days in Nicaragua Libre (City Lights, 1984)
• Over All the Obscene Boundaries: European Poems and Transitions (New Directions, 1988)
• When I Look at Pictures (Gibbs Smith, 1990)
• These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993 (New Directions, 1993)
• A Far Rockaway of the Heart (New Directions, 1998)