From the groundbreaking A Coney Island of the Mind in 1958 to the personal epic of Americus, Book I in 2003, Ferlinghetti has been the poetic conscience of America.
Ferlinghetti\'s A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one best-selling volume of Poetry by any living American poet..
In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions.
In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States.
In this work, he offers--in prose--what Poetry is, could be, and should be.
From the groundbreaking A Coney Island of the Mind in 1958 to the personal epic of Americus, Book I in 2003, Ferlinghetti has been the poetic conscience of America