Ferlinghetti reads Joyce inside City Lights

Name: Ferlinghetti reads Joyce inside City Lights
Uploaded: 2012-10-02T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 99 s
Description: Filmed in the shop he co-founded in 1953, Ferlinghetti reads from Joyce for City Lights' own Banned Book Project. The framing is deliberate: the store's publisher was himself prosecuted in 1957 for issuing Howl and Other Poems, and Judge Clayton Horn's October verdict found the book carried redeeming social importance.

OCT 02 2012

Filmed in the shop he co-founded in 1953, Ferlinghetti reads from Joyce for City Lights' own Banned Book Project. The framing is deliberate: the store's publisher was himself prosecuted in 1957 for issuing Howl and Other Poems, and Judge Clayton Horn's October verdict found the book carried redeeming social importance.

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