Lawrence Ferlinghetti in City Lights

San Francisco 1965

Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a Beat poet, artist and owner/publisher of City Lights Books (the first soft cover book store in the US). He was San Francisco's first Poet Laureate. These photographs were taken in the basement of City Lights. Ferlinghetti told me that City Lights used to be a Holy Roller church and that he had left up the Biblical tracts on the walls.