Tuesday, 23 February 2021

Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti (RIP) reads a poem about his dog

Here is 1965 video of pioneering Beat poet and City Lights owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died yesterday at age 101, reading a poem about his dog Homer.

"Dog" was published in 1958 in Ferlighetti's masterpiece A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems.Read the rest