I heard that today Lawrence Ferlinghetti died, just shy of his 102nd birthday. I discovered his poetry when I was about 15, initially through his poem "Dog" and fell in love with his work which excelled at painting with words. I still have my copy of "A Coney Island of the Mind" all these decades later, the first of his books I bought. Ferlinghetti published many of the seminal Beat writers (Ginsberg, Kerouac), was a prolific poet himself though declined to be called a Beat poet. But he is perhaps equally well known as the proprietor of City Lights Books in San Francisco, iconic as Shakespeare & Company in Paris.

What a life he lived! Rich and Full. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti