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A Coney Island of the Mind

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Description

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.

Product Details

PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish DateJanuary 17, 1968
Pages93
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780811200417
Dimensions7.9 X 5.2 X 0.3 inches | 0.3 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry, Poetry,

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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

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