Lawrence Ferlinghetti拒绝了他对传统艺术和社会思想的拒绝，这是一个挑战，这激发了20世纪50年代称为“节拍”的一代作家。As a forerunner of the group, he opened the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco in 1953. It became a major destination for freethinking writers and artists from all over the U.S., and also served as an independent publisher of “Beat” poetry, including his own, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958). Considered a historical benchmark for the time-period, that book maintains its place as one of the best-selling volumes of poetry of all time. The City Lights Bookstore remains a beacon for unorthodox writers and artists to this day.通过这个诗人查看更多