A Coney Island of the mind

A Coney Island of the mind Poems

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Book - 1958

Collection of poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat poet, and proprietor of the City Lights Bookshop in San Francisco. Ferlinghetti borrowed the title from Henry Miller's Into the Night Life, to describe his feelings as he wrote, a "circus of the soul." Ferlinghetti's "material, his tone, and phrasing, are taken from everyday life, from the 'Coney Island' of ideas and feelings in all our minds... ."--Cover blurb.

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Subjects
American poetry > 20th century.
Beats (Persons) > Poetry.
Beats (Persons)
American poetry.
Poetry.
Genres
Poetry
Published
[New York] : New Directions [1958]
Language
English
Main Author
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (author)
Item Description
Includes index of titles and first lines.
Physical Description
93 pages ; 21 cm
Audience
NP
ISBN
9780811200417
  • 1. A Coney Island of the Mind
  • 2. Oral Messages
  • 3. Poems from Pictures of the Gone World (1955)
  • Index of Titles and First Lines

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