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“Lawrence gets you laughing then hits you with the truth.†- Francis Ford Coppola“A brave man and a brave poet.†- Bob Dylan
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About the Author
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.
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Product details
Paperback: 93 pages
Publisher: New Directions (January 17, 1968)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0811200418
ISBN-13: 978-0811200417
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.3 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
95 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#10,907 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Other then the occasional Bohemian slang of the fifties, it still is as fresh as todays New York Times. Going through these verses took me back to days filled with youth, and the growing concern for where we would go and could we do any better than the last generation. This was a question that bothered many of the creative people during this time, certainly this was a type of hip poetry that reached a bit into the same bag as Ginsberg , Burroughs' and others of the "Beat Generation", the reason why this stayed fresher in my opinion, is it went beyond the hip to attract a whole audience to modern poetry.I was fortunate in a sense to be exposed to poetry in an early age, my father and I both had played with poetry in are creative formative years. I am sure it was WW II that ended his writing as much as Vietnam War an the holocaust that it was amidst ended mine.To anyone who may consider buying this work, this is a work that expanded Ferlinghetti's work to a new generation. It was cool enough for many in the 1960's bought it just to look cool as they walked through the halls of education. "I know this much, that any society that pays more attention to it's politicos than poets is one that is doomed to decay and destruction." This last line may be something I read or wrote, at my age so many of these things merge, but I do believe it is worth consideration, as it this volume. Watch out, I plan to review other American Poet's.
This book is the beginning of the beginning of the Beat Generation. Even though Ferlinghetti preferred to be considered a bohemian poet there is no denying his integral role in the upstart of the poetry of the Beat generation. It was Ferlinghetti whose City Lights publishing that published Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl and Other Poems' which almost got him in a lot of trouble as far as the whole obscenity trial. But what most peoele don't know is that it was Ferlinghetti's 'Pictures of the Gone World' and 'A Coney Island of the Mind', published before Ginsberg's 'Howl and Other Poems', that truly sparked the sea change in the literary world of the 1950s and forever.' I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the origins of Beat poetry. This amazing book is truly the beginning of the beginning.
a long time favorite and a classic that deserves a spot on every book shelf. I bought this copy to infect my most literate granddaughter with some of Ferlinghetti's wonderful word paintings. "the pennycandystore beyond the El is where I first fell in love with unreality" The man and the book is a treasure.
First purchased in paperback in the 60's, this went missing even as my brain, 50 years later, wanted to experience it again. The CD is lovely (driving around listening to Ferlinghetti read his poetry on your car CD player ... a mind blower, for sure), the book itself is perfectly reproduced ... what's not to love? The poems themselves might seem a little dated if you are stuck in your own time zone (as would Shakespeare, if he weren't Holy) ...but you know, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on here.
More beat stuff that hipsters love. I have one question, where’s the grit in any of this? Nowhere. I also HATE the formatting of this book. It messes with the cadence and flow of the reading of it, so much that it ruins the poems for me.However if you’re a fan of Jack Kerouac, then I highly suggest this book. You will adore it.
I read this book when it was first published. Everything in it struck a chord with me. I loved it. Now I am buying it for my granddaughter, who is about the age I was when I first came across it, and asked me about my beatnik days in North beach in the 1950s. What better picture of that era than this book? She loved it. I highly recommend it.
I hadn't read this since high school which was a lifetime ago and it's just as good and relevant today
I personally am not a fan of poetry, but since I had recently become interested in Beat literature, I felt I must read this collection of poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The book is comprised of three sets of poems. In the first set is a rant against the absurdities of American culture. While I wouldn't consider myself an angry young man, I found this section to be quite refreshing.The second set of poems, an Oral Message, is meant to be read aloud with jazz accompaniment. These were written in the 50's so it's sort of like a precursor to rap. I think I would have enjoyed this much more if I had seen it performed live.The final 13 poems are from his first book and deal mostly with death.Like I said I am not a huge fan of poetry, and most of these poems were case of hit or miss. Most enjoyed a great deal, some I didn't understand at all. Sometimes it was just a case of line or phrase that I found inspiring, but over all I really did enjoy this collection.
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