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Two Scavengers In A Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes By Lawrence Ferlinghetti The Context Of The Poem Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in New York in 1919. After spending much of his childhood in France, he studied universities both in the U.S.A and in Paris before moving to San Francisco in the early 1950s where he found the city lights bookshop and Publishing Company. City lights was at the heart of the beat movement in the 1950s and 1960s where Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg and other poets created a style of free verse that was both radical and populous. The beat poets were the U.S.As angry young men questioning some of the dominant values of American Culture. They also placed exuberant emphasis on poetry in performance, often with Jazz accompaniment. "The kind of poetry which has been making most noise here," Ferlinghetti remarked, "Is what should be called Street...

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