In a letter dated June 24, 1965, he wrote to inform Lawrence
Ferlinghetti of the new press, describing his own role as a partner in the project:
The absence of theater from the Cambridge Companion is more than made up for by Geis's volume, which, over the course of twenty-four chapters, provides broad interpretations of both "beat" and "drama." This includes discussion of plays written by canonical Beat authors such as Kerouac,
Ferlinghetti, and Gregory Corso.
What do you think?" Unfortunately, we are not told what
Ferlinghetti thought, if anything at all.
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti became a major figure in the Beat and counterculture movements of the 1950s and 60s.
3 LUNCH POEMS, FRANK O'HARA (CITY LIGHTS BOOKS, 1964/2014) With an introduction by John Ashbery and facsimiles of O'Hara's correspondence with Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, the fiftieth-anniversary edition of this collection is a time machine to a different New York, when the borders between art and literature were permeable, crossings were not policed, and insouciance was the name of the game.
Head down to listen and discuss performances from US Beats such as Ginsberg,
Ferlinghetti and Burroughs, as well as some of their British followers.
Ferlinghetti, opening lines of "Instructions to Painters & Poets" (1)
"I am a tear of the sun": Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Autobiography
Di Prima follows Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Janice Mirikitani, devorah major, and Jack Hirschman.
The show will feature David Jahn reading Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac; Nicholas Earl Davis reading Allen Ginsberg; Alex Charalambides reading Lawrence
Ferlinghetti; Tony Brown reading Lord Buckley and Bob Kaufman; Victor D.
No book dealing with such Beat literati as the aforementioned Ginsberg of Howl fame, Jack Kerouac of On the Road, and the likes of Gary Snyder, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, and Leroi Jones would be honest without some raffish spice.