A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
, by Ferlinghetti, Lawrence- ISBN: 9780811200417 | 0811200418
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/17/1968
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 1950's—as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul.