Lawrence Ferlinghetti on San Francisco

Beat Generation poet gives audio tour of favourite SF locations

Bob Donlin, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Robert La Vigne, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco 1956
Standing in front of City Lights Bookshop

San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood haunts in San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach.

Producer Jim McKee captures Ferlinghetti chatting over coffee at the Growers' Market with his friend, dramatist Erik Bauersfeld, as he explores the city and examines how his relationship with water and the sea emerge in his poems and paintings. (Link via thebookslut.)

Listen: Ferlinghetti: San Francisco Locations

Also at A Piece of Monologue

• Carolyn Cassady on the Beat Generation
• Kerouac and Ginsberg Correspondence
• Writers: William S. Burroughs
• Bringing Ginsberg's Howl to the Screen
• Kerouac and Ginsberg Correspondence
• The Photography of Tom Palumbo