Lawrence Ferlinghetti with jazz musicians, photo by Nat Farbman
Ferlinghetti died this past Monday at the age of 101, certainly a natural and deserved way to go. This is not an obit, though. It’s a critical look at the place of poetry in American music, especially in the context of jazz, and not so much through the music but through the poetry.
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