‘A Coney Island of the Mind’ (1958) is a sequence of poems, although it can also be viewed as one long poem.
He lived a long life: born in 1919, he died in 2021, aged 101.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ‘ A Coney Island of the Mind’.įerlinghetti was one of the most high-profile poets associated with the Beat movement, although he is perhaps more famous as a publisher of Beatnik literature his poetry is sometimes included in anthologies of Beatnik poetry, but he himself denied that he was a ‘Beat poet’.