LITTLE BOY

Book number: 92882 Product format: Hardback Author: LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

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From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Parisian cafés, to befriending America's greatest counter-cultural writers, Little Boy has seen it all. 'Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-horde pent-up within him.' This is the story of one man's extraordinary life, steeped in the exhilarating energy of the Beats, a magical cascade of language that gleams with Walt Whitman's visionary spirit, a meditation of iconic publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 99 years on the planet, rich in wisdom, emotion and memories. 'A spiralling stream of consciousness that celebrates the divine transcendence of poetry and an all too human coming-of-agelessness. His mentoring example and love of the written word is illuminating and inspirational.' Ferlinghetti, born 1919, was the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers in San Francisco and was arrested on obscenity charges for publishing Allen Ginsberg's book Howl, and he has written over 40 poetry collections. This memoir was first published in 2019 and he died in February 2021. 179pp.

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