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    <body><![CDATA[Still beautiful, but this is certainly not just more of &quot;A Coney Island of the Mind&quot;. Ferlinghetti sounds older and a little less enamored of the world.<br/><br/>For the first half of the book, I kind of struggled. Poems about love are sometimes too personal to feel universal, and these ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47253331">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is some of the best poetry I've ever read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the sequel to 'a coney island of the mind' released decades later.  a similar tone, running the range of poetry from serious to funny, engaged to intimate.  get it..]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The wait was worth it for Ferlinghetti's follow-up to Coney Island. One of my favorite poetry books - masterful writing.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[98.6% of the time I find poetry intolerable. But I like this. I would recommend it to people allergic to the genre.<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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