Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap" Indeed, this is such an interesting quote. Furthermore, it quoted by famous poet - Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919. In 1953, Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin began to publish City Lights magazine. They also opened the City Lights Books Shop in San Francisco to help support the magazine. In 1955, they launched City Light Publishing, a book-publishing venture. Ferlinghetti is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and is also the author more than eight plays and of the novels Love in the Days of Rage (1988) and Her (1966).

The reason i like Lawrence Ferlinghetti is that his poems compared to the others have a distinguishing feature. Almost all the other poets have written their poems only for adults or teens with a great understanding or grasp of English. However, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poems could be easily understood even by me, a thirteen year old boy. His poems are also interesting and at the same time, lets the readers have a glance of the facts of life. Lastly, his quotes are also amazing and easily understood.

Three of my favourite poems written by him would be :

- I am waiting
- A vast confusion
- Underwear

Bibliography
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/367
http://www.poemhunter.com/lawrence-ferlinghetti/