City Lights Bookstore
The
City Lights Bookstore in
San Francisco is an independent bookstore specializing in
poetry. In addition to selling books, it operates as a small press
publisher of poetry. The bookstore was founded in
1953 by Peter D. Martin and the poet
Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Ferlinghetti became its sole owner two years after its establishment, and who began the publishing program in
1955 in order to publish
Beat poets. City Lights proved its worth by publishing
Howl when no other publisher would touch it. In
The Fall of America Allen Ginsburg describes City Lights as "home."
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