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SAN FRANCISCO - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embody its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Poet, publisher, bookseller and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st ...