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25: 369: 89: 206:, 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 243:
by Henry Miller, in the phrase: "Everything is sordid, shoddy, thin as pasteboard. A Coney Island of the mind. The amusement shacks are running full blast, ...".
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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
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was written in the conservative post-war 1950s, and the poems “resonate … with a joyful anti-establishment fervor”.
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published a Special 50th Anniversary Edition with a CD of the author reading his work.
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accompaniment. There are approximately a million copies in print of
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The phrase "Coney Island of the mind" first appeared in
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Bettman Archive
Beat
ISBN
978-0-8112-0041-7
OCLC
284358
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
jazz
NBC Experiment in Television
New Directions
Black Spring
"Revisiting Coney Island of the Mind"
"A Coney Island of the Mind, 50th Anniversary Edition (with CD)"
"NBC Experiment in Television"
Litencyc.com
Citylights.com
New Directions Publishing
Webster.edu
Emptymirrorbooks.com
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Wayback Machine
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anthology

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