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A Coney Island of the Mind

A Coney Island of the Mind - Paperback

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Availability:In StockContributor:Lawrence FerlinghettiSeries:New Directions Paperback No. 74Publish date:1968-01-17Pages:93
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811200417ISBN-10:811200418UPC:9780811200417Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Love & EroticaSize:7.94 x 5.23 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCST9SR14S
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811200417ISBN-10:811200418UPC:9780811200417Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Love & EroticaSize:7.94 x 5.23 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCST9SR14S
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence: - In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti cofounded City Lights, the first paperback bookstore in the United States, a Mecca for millions. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry by any living American poet. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1919, Ferlinghetti has received the Robert Frost Memorial Medal and the first Literarian Award of the National Book Foundation.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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