false 303551 4 "A Far Rockaway of the Heart" is Ferlinghetti's sequel to "A Coney Island of the Mind," written forty years afterwards in what the author has called "a poetry seizure" that lasted more than a year. A sequence of one hundred and one poems with recurrent themes, it includes various sections on love, art, music, history, and literature, as well as confrontations with major figures in the avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation. This paperbound edition now includes eighteen new poems from Ferlinghetti's "Pictures of the Gone World" which he publishes under his City Lights imprint. A self-styled "stand-up tragedian," Ferlinghetti has been called "the foremost chronicler of our times." If "A Coney Island of the Mind" was a generations vibrant eye-opener, "A Far Rockaway of the Heart" is a wake-up call for a new age. 975491 1997 A Far Rockaway of the Heart (New Directions Paperbook) total:141|5:54|4:58|3:25|2:3|1:1| 141 584 175 8 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 16:34:07 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 16:37:42 -0700 2009 One of the pleasures I’ve rediscovered is reading a poem each morning. Many years ago when I took a Teachers as Scholars course in African American literature, I was given Norton’s Anthology of African American Literature. I remember a conversation I had with Judy Steinbergh, our Poet in R...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 23 08:51:50 -0800 2009 Mon May 25 17:00:51 -0700 2009
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