A Coney Island of the Mind

Poems

1 February 1968

Description

Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind has become a modern classic. It has been translated into nine languages and there are now three-quarters of a million copies in print.

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.

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"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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Paperback

9780811200417

132 x 206 mm • 93 pages

£8.99

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