Celebrating 100 years of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(LA Times Television)

Early in 1963 - in the midst of wrangling with a local printer who refused to set type for a text vivid with expletives - Lawrence Ferlinghetti drafted a letter to his friend and fellow poet, Allen Ginsberg: `If it weren´t for having that there City Lights book rack, [my wife] Kirby and I would...