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A Coney Island of the Mind

Name: A Coney Island of the Mind
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind is a collection of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti originally published in 1958. It contains some of Ferlinghetti’s most famous poems, such as “I Am Waiting” and “Junkman's Obbligato”, which were created for jazz accompaniment. There are approximately a million copies in print of A Coney Island, and the book has been translated into over a dozen languages. It remains one of the best-selling and most popular books of poetry ever published. Because some of the material had been previously published, the first edition of Coney Island bears both a 1955 and a 1958 copyright.

“I once started out
to walk around the world
but ended up in Brooklyn,
that Bridge was too much for me.”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti book A Coney Island of the Mind

Source: A Coney Island of the Mind