An Elegy to Dispel Gloom [After the Assassinations of Mayor George Moscone of San Francisco and City Supervisor Harvey Milk November 27,1978]

San Francisco: San Francisco Examiner, 1978. Second Printing. Broadside [35.5 x 21.5 cm] Printed in black ink. Near fine. Horizontal fold at center (as issued). Priced 25¢. Signed by Ferlinghetti at the foot. Uncommon work that was issued days after the murder of George Moscone and Harvey Milk and was widely credited with helping to calm the City. Printed in an edition of fifty copies. Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-1921) was a poet, painter, book designer, publisher, bookseller, and graphic artist, who was an important leader in the American poetry revival in San Francisco in the 1950s.