false 99713 4 Ferlinghetti is a national treasure, and his voice has become part of our collective conscience. Some of his most famous poems from this collection such as "I Am Waiting" and "Junkman's Obbligato" were created for jazz accompaniment. Written in the conservative post-war 1950s, his poems still resonate, as they will continue to resonate, with a joyful anti-establishment fervor that beats a rhythmic portrait of humanity. Ferlinghetti sings of a world in which "the heart flops over / gasping 'Love'," "cadillacs fell thru the trees like rain," and where "we are the same people / only further from home / on freeways fifty lanes wide." 1101090 1958 A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems total:1183|5:537|4:399|3:201|2:40|1:6| 1183 4970 1473 122 5 3 false false Mon Feb 18 18:00:02 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 18:05:47 -0800 2008
It was a face which darkness could kill
in an instant
a face as easily hurt
by laughter or light

'We think differently at night'
she told me once
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this one is...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1958 Tue Dec 25 16:01:18 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 25 16:32:24 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 17:21:26 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 01 23:22:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 14 16:59:57 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 18:12:36 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Sun May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 00:46:40 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 15:10:49 -0700 2008
In Golden Gate Park that day
a man and his wife were coming along
thru the enormous meadow
which was the meadow of the world
He was wearing green suspenders
and carrying an old beat-up flute
in one hand
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Ferlinghetti was not what I had anticipated when I first chose him as my research subject, but I quickly decided to lik...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Feb 19 07:43:45 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 07:50:36 -0800 2009 4 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Sun Feb 10 09:45:39 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 09:48:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Oct 09 04:53:48 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 10:01:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1969 Thu Jul 02 12:22:18 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 12:44:57 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 true false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 23:39:48 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 11:45:46 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Apr 05 16:35:08 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 18:32:15 -0700 2007
"only the ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Apr 28 20:42:41 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 30 18:03:24 -0700 2008
where I am, it's not happening.

it might be location, i may have to move closer to the wonder.

san francisco is closer to the wonder.
ferlinghetti was the beat poet whose poems appealed to me the most. concrete...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 07:16:08 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 14:55:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 19:10:20 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 19:14:12 -0800 2009 On the Road sometime between high school and college and found it first exciting, then repetitive and, finally, I was just left grateful for its modest length. I’ve never been tempted to read more of Jack. Read some Ginsberg over the years but found it too rantish f...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Tue Feb 19 18:48:16 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 18:51:45 -0800 2008
"but he
kept right on
painting"

i love how sweet ferlinghetti's poems are. i don't think he means them to be. but they are.

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