A brave man and a brave poet.

Bob Dylan

The original 1958 edition.

A Coney Island of the Mind

Poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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 1950s—as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul. _A Coney Island of the Mind _is not about the geographical Coney Island. The author intended it as a sustained metaphor or allegory of modern life.

Paperback(published Jan, 18 1958)

ISBN
9780811200417
Price US
9.95
Price CN
11.5
Page Count
93
Portrait of Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

American writer, publisher, activist, visual artist, and founder of City Lights Books

A brave man and a brave poet.

Bob Dylan

As a social phenomenon Coney Island of the Mind is truly remarkable. With roughly a million copies in print, few poetry collections come anywhere close to matching its readership.

The Guardian