News at Eleven: "I am signaling you through the flames,"

he [Lawrence Ferlinghetti] begins in the new section from which his book takes its title. "The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it." Poetry, in this vision, must be a political statement, arrows slung for freedom of expression, thought and resistance. "Write living newspapers," he counsels.

from San Francisco Chronicle: Ferlinghetti argues that poetry can save the world

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