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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Two Scavengers in a Truck... Context Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in 1919 in New York, but he is mostly associated with San Francisco as one of the main poets of the Beat movement. In 1953, he co-founded a publishing house and bookshop called City Lights, which specialised in Beat poetry and became a meeting place for poets and artists. His first book was published in 1955; he has since written 17 more books of poetry, drama, prose and translation. He often writes about politics and social issues, as seen in Two Scavengers... He was named as San Francisco's first Poet Laureate in 1998. Vocabulary coifed (line 13) Styled - she has a casual-looking hairdo. gargoyle (line 22) A spout in the shape of a grotesque head, used to clear rainwater from old buildings (especially churches). Quasimodo (line 22) AKA the Hunchback of Notre Dame The poem describes four people held together for a moment at a red traffic...

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