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A Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's - as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul.

Book Details

  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publish Date: Jan 17th, 1968
  • Pages: 93
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.94in - 5.23in - 0.27in - 0.25lb
  • EAN: 9780811200417
  • Categories: American - GeneralSubjects & Themes - Love & Erotica

About the Author

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: - In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti cofounded City Lights, the first paperback bookstore in the United States, a Mecca for millions. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry by any living American poet. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, Ferlinghetti has received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation.

Praise for this book

A brave man and a brave poet.--Bob Dylan
Lawrence gets you laughing then hits you with the truth.--Francis Ford Coppola