![]() ![]() In 2008, New Directions published a Special 50th Anniversary Edition with a CD of the author reading his work. In 1967, a presentation of A Coney Island of the Mind was broadcast on NBC Experiment in Television. Because some of the material had been previously published, the first edition of Coney Island bears both a 1955 and a 1958 copyright.Ĭoney Island was written in the conservative post-war 1950s, and the poems “resonate … with a joyful anti-establishment fervor”. The mixture of the sensual and the spiritual in this poem is very typical of the poems in Coney Island of the Mind (and Ferlinghetti's work in general). It remains one of the best-selling and most popular books of poetry ever published. It has been translated into nine languages, and there are. ![]() ![]() There are approximately a million copies in print of A Coney Island, and the book has been translated into over a dozen languages. Ferlinghettis A Coney Island of the Mind continues to be the most popular poetry book in the U.S. It contains some of Ferlinghetti’s most famous poems, such as “I Am Waiting” and “Junkman's Obbligato”, which were created for jazz accompaniment. A Coney Island of the Mind is a collection of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti originally published in 1958. ![]()
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