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...poet identified with the San Francisco Renaissance headed by Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Brother of Antoninus published poems for many years under the name William Everson until he became a lay brother in the Dominican Order eleven years ago. As all poetry should, Brother Antoninus' writings have had an organic development which reflects the parallel development of his personal life. While much of his earlier poetry did exhibit some orientation toward God, it largely dealt with his attempt to find meaning in life through sensuality. He explained the cause of a rather sudden shift in orientation: after...
Asher Moore called on Snoopy the dog from Peanuts, and Law rence Ferlinghetti to illustrate some basic attitudes of existentialists at a lecture Tuesday...
Moore showed a Peanuts cartoon depicting an icicle about to fall on Snoopy's doghouse; "I'm too ME too die," Snoopy wails, illustrating the existentialist's positive commitment. Turning to the poetry of the beat generation, Moore quoted Ferlinghetti to illistrate an exaggerated interpretation of the existentialist emphasis on activity. The poem described a young virgin wearing only a bird's nest in "a very existential place...
...writes Michael McClure, and furthermore, WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP Most action poets profess to take religion seriously, "via crucis vicar son of a bitch render out with magnificat," cries Ebbe Borregaard, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the wittiest of them, writes of a "wiggy prophet . . . gentle as the lamb of God/made into mad cutlets." Many action poets describe "religious visions" induced by narcotics; conversely, one poet speaks of "getting a fix at the altar." Even more important than religion to most action poets is sex, but more important than either is excrement. Excrement is sacrament. They sprinkle it around like holy...
...North Beach's Columbus Avenue, a dozen customers once constituted an oxygen problem at the City Lights bookstore, run by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 40, as a combination Beat Haven and publishing house. Now the crush is so great that the bookstore has been expanded, and Ferlinghetti's only slightly offbeat A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions) has sold a surprising 15,000 copies. The really far-out beatniks do even better. Allen Ginsberg's effete epic, Howl, published by Ferlinghetti, is up to 40,000 copies in print, and Fantasy Records is preparing a disk...