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Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Romance of City Lights

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Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ was the most famous of the Pocket Poets series published by City Lights Press, but those striking looking little books changed the course of American lit.

Mark Dery
Mark Dery
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Mark Dery

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