Showing A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Paperback. Pub Date: February. 1968 Pages: 93 Publisher: new Directions Ferlinghetti Publishing is a National treasure. And HIS VOICE has become PART of Our Collective Conscience Some of of I-Waiting in his MOST Famous poems from this collection such AS is Am and Junkman's Obbligato were created for jazz accompaniment. Written in the conservative post-war 1950s. his poems still resonate. as they will continue to resonate. with a joyful anti-establishment fervor that beats a rhythmic portrait of humanity. Ferlinghetti sings of a world in which the heart flops over gasping 'Love'. cadillacs fell thru the trees like rain. and where we are the same people only further from home on freeways fifty lanes wide. This special 50th Anniversary Edition comes with a newly recorded CD of the author reading the 29 poems of the title section of A Coney Island of the Mind as well as selectio...