Ferlinghetti on his painting and the City Lights years
JUL 30 2012
David Perry interviews Lawrence Ferlinghetti about a museum exhibition of his visual art and about his history in San Francisco. Ferlinghetti bought out his partner Peter D. Martin's half of City Lights in 1955 for a thousand dollars and built the publishing arm around the Pocket Poets Series.
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