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3 days ago · Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote a poetry collection called “A Coney Island of the Mind.” Many remember Coney Island for its various inventions: Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs invented the first...
5 days ago · Everything is sordid, shoddy, thin as pasteboard. A Coney Island of the mind. The amusement shacks are running full blast. Lawrence Ferlinghetti liked the phrase “A Coney Island of the mind” so much that he borrowed it for the title for a 1958 book of poetry.
3 days ago · Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, SWWIM, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, as well as other publications. She holds an M.F.A. from The City College of New York, where she received the Jerome Lowell DeJur Award in Creative Writing and the Irwin and Alice Stark Poetry Prize.
3 days ago · You may never visit, but can come a mile closer by pronouncing sastrugi , wind carved snow ridges, by pronouncing polynya , an island of open water in sea ice, each word a bridge to carry meaning from emptiness
1 day ago · Get FREE shipping on City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (editor), from wordery.com. ""Printer's ink is the greatest explosive."-Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets
2 days ago · From E.E. Cummings:"It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing." For most people, the "whole," is conceptual (as a component of thought/thinking). However, what is merely conceptual (i.e., a product of the brain-thought…
5 days ago · Coney Island, once called nicknames like “Nickel Empire,” “America’s Playground,” “Sodom By the Sea,” “Electric Eden,” and “Poor Man’s Paradise,” is much more than its entertainment side.
