Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-horde pent-up within him. From growing up as an orphan in 1920s New York, to serving in the Navy at the D-Day landings in Normandy, to a vagabond life drinking in Parisian cafes, to befriending America's greatest counter-cultural writers, Little Boy has seen it all.

Eminent Beat Generation figure Lawrence Ferlinghetti reflects on his experiences across the twentieth century, through the Second World War and the emergent counterculture. A wise meditation from the ninety-nine year old poet and publisher.