{"product_id":"23334-ferlinghetti-lawrence-signed-photograph-as-a-priest","title":"Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. (1919–2021) Signed Photograph as a Priest","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePostcard photograph of Ferlinghetti dressed as a religious leader at the One World Poetry Festival, 1981, signed on the verso, \"Ferlinghetti.\" A crease down the postcard, otherwise fine. \u003c\/span\u003e4.25 x 6 inches; 10.8 x 15 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAn author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into \"Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFerlinghetti was a baptized Catholic but described himself in Joycean terms that acknowledged his Catholic heritage while rejecting church teaching. Also notable was his connection with Thomas Merton. “I read [The] Seven Storey Mountain in the late 1940s,” Ferlinghetti told Paul Wilkes in a 1984 interview. (Jack Kerouac and Gregory Corso also noted the influence of Merton’s famous spiritual memoir on their own writing, with Kerouac describing himself in 1960 as “actually not ‘beat’ but strange solitary crazy Catholic mystic.”) “He was probably the first modern Catholic writer that I had ever read. And inasmuch as I had gone to Columbia University also in 1946-47, I identified with him quite strongly,” he continued. “And then it was only in 1961 that at City Lights Books we published a Journal for the Protection of All Beings. This was issue number one. And the first thing in here is Merton’s ‘Chant to Be Used in Processions Around a Site with Furnaces.’”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093842743455,"sku":"23334","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Ferlinghetti_2C_Lawrence_Signed_Picture_Postcard_23334a.png?v=1722190747","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/23334-ferlinghetti-lawrence-signed-photograph-as-a-priest","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}