Lawrence Ferlinghetti: ‘Most of the poets were on something, but somebody had to mind the shop’

[AdamSmith]

Delightful!

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 'Most of the poets were on something, but somebody had to mind the shop'

The publisher of the Beats talks about Ginsberg the showman, the Albert hall happening and how one of his own poets emptied the City Lights till

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/04/lawrence-ferlinghetti-interview-poets

[TotallyOz]

Great article. Thanks.

I love this part:

Everything is relative, however: compared to Ginsberg, who rarely encountered a drug he didn’t want more of, or Jack Kerouac, who was notorious for drinking heavily with his mother in the house they shared, Ferlinghetti seems a paragon of restraint.