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born 1936 United States

Nancy Joyce Peters (born October 3, 1936) is an American author, publisher and co-owner with Lawrence Ferlinghetti of the City Lights Bookstore.

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Also known as: Nancy J. Peters, Nancy Joyce Peters

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Lawrence is usually the first poet kids read in schools that they really like. It's a real turn-on for them.

We have one called Commodity Aesthetics, which is our section on popular culture.

He found in the narcotic night world a kind of modern counterpart to the gothic castle — a zone of peril to be symbolically or existentially crossed.

The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of those poets.

The mood of the '50s is like today.

The old San Francisco is under attack to the point where it's disappearing

The tempest unleashes an alphabet
letters fall through the apertures of crazy angles
to spell out the future
uprooting the course of invention
and enslaving the masters

It's In the Wind (1977)

We're still in a state of shock … We have our "Dump Bush and Cheney" sign in the window, which Lawrence [Ferlinghetti] painted himself. We're looking forward to impeachment or perhaps, indictments for war crimes.

During the '70s, when the Cold War was still on, we invited Voznesensky and Yevtushenko to come here. We had very large readings for them. It was a way of kind of culturally thawing the Cold War.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nancy Peters (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.