A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
93 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0811200418
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Language: English
Publish: January 17, 1968
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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.