A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (941 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0811200418 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 93 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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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)
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'sas if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul.
a circus of the soul missed I first read Coney Island when I was in high school, when I fancied myself a poet. Ferlinghetti's work in this slim volume is much simpler and much more accessible than that of his contemporaries, especially Ginsberg. Part I of the collection, titled "A Coney Island of the Mind," is more deliberate in its stylings and in a slight need of an editor, but expressive nonetheless. The r. Lawrence Ferlinghetti Rocks! One of the great "beat" poets of the 1950s. Everyone with a brain should spend some time with it.. Amazon Customer said Three Stars. NUFF SAID
. He is the subject of Christopher Felver’s new film documentary, Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder. The poet, publisher, and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, has received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation