A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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.

“A Coney Island Of The Mind.” Brooklyn Was Mine. His Coney Island of the Mind is one of the best-selling volumes of poetry by any living American poet. Now? Well, that’s between my angel and me. What I remember from the poetry collection is the line, “There is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking.” When I was an undergrade, this line couldn’t have been further from the truth. Poet and translator Lawrence Ferlinghetti is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and the founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco, California. In Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Smith suggested that, in this collection, Ferlinghetti enlarged his stance and developed major themes of anarchy, mass corruption, engagement, and a belief in the surreality and wonder of life. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. In 1958, New Directions published Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind. Even shaking your head won’t make you unsee what your mind wants to reveal. from A Coney Island of the Mind, copyright 1958 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Her essay is about memories of her father that come about when a date takes her to Coney Island to ride The Cyclone. In her essay that has the same title as his collection, Katie Roiphe says of his poem, “It’s not a happy poem, really, it’s not a poem that bodes well, but who remembers anything but the title?” (71). Stream songs including 'A Coney Island of the Mind, Pt. Otherwise, I’d be missing out on everything. Listen to A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti on Apple Music. While the poems didn’t help with the confusion–in fact, they confused me more–they did open up my sheltered realm and made me realize that I need to get curious about life. I read it cover to cover as a lost and naive undergrad. shelved 72,779 times Showing 30 distinct works.The poetry collection that changed my life is Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island Of The Mind. Books by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Author of A Coney Island of the Mind) Books by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Ferlinghetti Average rating 4.16