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• Paul LaPrise

  A huge loss. Too many hours spent in City Lights enjoying the fruits of his labor. Too many hours pouring over his work. A agenius, and a leader of protest. Go in Peace Lawrence.

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• Ken Winkler

  I met him in 1968 and was struck on how approachable and kind he was, especially to me one of the greatest unknown and unpublished young writers in San Francisco. He even passed on a book he published by Rene Daumal that he thought might be inspiration…

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• Jerry Tutak

  Thank you for your wisdom: “Pity the nation whose people are sheep,

  and whose shepherds mislead them.

  Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,…

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• David Shodo Portolano

  ONE OF MY HEROES

  KING OF THE BEATS

  SAIL ON SHIPMATE

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• Ron Aman

  What an incredible legacy! He will be missed but not soon forgotten

   

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• Sylvia Valdez

  Another great legend lost.

   

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• Gary A Lucas

  During high school I was in a boy’s home on the Chicago north shore named Arden Shore. Around 1962-3 the guys were passing around a dog eared copy of Ferlinghetti’s ‘Coney Island Of The Mind’, so that was one of the first poetry materials I read, and a…

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• Stephen Eric Pominville

  I love the Whitman poster!

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• Ed Rumbaugh

  Thank you for sharing your wisdom and for creating the worlds greatest book store.

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• Steve Bobinski

  I met him once at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco !! It was a serendipitous meeting

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• Pat Crisci

  Dog eared copy of Coney Island & Junkman’s Obbligato …https://www.angelfire.com/oh/BringUsAnotherBeer/junkman.html

   

  

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  Junkman’s Obbligato – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Junkman’s Obbligato – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

   

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