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Lawrence Ferlinghetti in front of his famous bookstore, City Lights. For many, Ferlinghetti and City Lights were the cornerstone of a generation.

	From the Chronicle Archives Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Offbeat Beatnik In Celebration of 1999 Interview City's First Poet Laureate Commiserating on the State of the World The Beats: McClure Inspired by Butters Canyon A `Howl' That Still Echoes Burroughs' Horrible Life of Poetic Artistry Life Line of the Beat Generation A Bundle for a Beat Classic North Beach Library Collects Beat Works Book Reviews: A The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth - Rexroth A Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way - Bukowski A Spontaneous Mind - Ginsberg A Death and Fame - Ginsberg Some of the Dharma - Kerouac Atop An Underwood and Selected Letters 1957-1969 - Kerouac The Bird Catcher - Ponsot City Lights: A Landmark Bookstore where it began may get soon landmark status 'Beats' bookstore may finally attain landmark status Planners OK landmark status for City Lights Supervisors vote unanimously for landmark status Obits/Memorials: Kirby Doyle - Beat Writer, Poet Ted Joans - Beat Poet, Artist Remembering City Lights' Shig Murao William Burroughs Mourned in S.F. Gregory Corso - Last of Beat Triumvirate Poet Was Ever a Subversive Spirit

Chapter 4:
The long dream of survival
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A portrait in words
June 11, 2003

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