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

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

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

When I joined City Lights in 1971 and started working with Lawrence, it was clear that it had been very much a center of protest, for people with revolutionary ideas and people who wanted to change society. And when I first began working at the little editorial office up on Filbert and Grant, people that Lawrence had known through the whole decade of the '60s were dropping in all the time, like Paul Krassner, Tim Leary, people who were working with underground presses and trying to provide an alternative to mainstream media. This was a period of persecution, and FBI infiltration of those presses.