Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Reading Yeats I do not think

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When I think of Ferlinghetti, I don't think of Coney Island. I think of Brighton Avenue, and the used book store with an old Asian woman that would stare at a static TV screen for hours, yet through conversation was evidently one of the best read people on earth, who could seemingly do anything, but had decided that her purpose was to sell books at cost to poor Bostonians with dreams. I read I AM WAITING and cried tears of pain, joy and wonder. She charged me something like 2 bucks after looking at whatever note she made on the second page. Gog bless her

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They tried to silence him and the poets he supported. It what happens when cancel culture acquires the authority of government. This impulse can come from any side of the political spectrum. The struggle to express the truth of life continues because of his influence.