Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 1958 collection, A Coney Island of the Mind, launched his career and became one of the century’s best-selling and most-translated volumes of poetry. But he’s just as well known for his activity off the page: for co-founding City [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
Pretty sure that’s a picture of Gregory Corso.
Posted by Josh Keiter on Oct 7, 2012 at 5:51 PM
Yes, definitely Gregory Corso! (And Ferlinghetti has never had long hair.)
Posted by Empty Mirror on Oct 8, 2012 at 12:23 PM
yes it is. did Ferlinghetti ever have hair?
Posted by mark on Oct 8, 2012 at 5:52 PM
Yes, that picture is not of Ferlinghetti. Definitely Corso.
Posted by stacey on Oct 9, 2012 at 1:01 PM
No, it is Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Here’s another picture from the same time period. http://www.google.com/imgres?s…
Posted by philochs65 on Oct 18, 2012 at 8:32 AM