Ferlinghetti : a rebirth of wonder

Author

Christopher Felver

Call Number

• DVD 921 F357F (CEN)

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Performers

Featuring: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Dennis Hopper, Billy Collins, Dave Eggers, Anne Waldman, Michael McClure, Lorenzo Ferlinghetti, Amiri Baraka, David Amram, Erik Bauersfeld, Giada Diano, Bob Dylan, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Scheer, Jack Hirschman, Bill Morgan, David Meltzer, Sylvia Whitman, Al Bendich, George Whitman, Paul Yamazaki, Herb Gold, Jean-Jacques Lebel.

Publication Information

[New York] : First Run Features, [2013]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (79 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

This incisive and entertaining portrait of American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti explores his vital role as catalyst for numerous literary careers and for the Beat movement itself. Interviews with Ferlinghetti and others reveal a rich mľange of characters and events that unfolded in postwar America. In 1953 Ferlinghetti opened City Lights Bookstore, which quickly evolved into an iconic institution symbolizing social change and literary freedom. Six decades later, it is still going.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a documentary in 2010.

Bonus feature: Ferlinghetti reads his poem "The history of the airplane."