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Transcript: Commentary: City Lights Books in San Francisco
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- June 6, 2003
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Commentary: City Lights Books in San Francisco
Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
The poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a champion of a different kind of
public discourse. His work explores eddies and whirlpools in the
American mainstream.
Mr. LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (Poet): `The world is a beautiful place
to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always being so very
much fun, if you don't mind a touch of hell now and then, just when
everything is fine, because even in heaven they don't sing all the
time.'
SIEGEL: Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading from his poem "Pictures of
the Gone World."
He put his ...