Far Rockaway of the Heart

A sequel to A Coney Island of the MindÓ, & written 40 years after the original in what Ferlinghetti has called a poetry seizureÓ that lasted more than a year, this collection is a sequence of 101 related poems with recurrent themes. The author also thinks of it as a kind of caustic critique of modern poetry, including confrontations with or parodies of major figures in the literary avant-garde before the arrival of the Beat generation, notably Pound & Eliot, Beckett & Joyce. A self-styled stand-up tragedian,Ó Ferlinghetti has been called the foremost chronicler of our times.ÓFerlinghetti, Lawrence is the author of 'Far Rockaway of the Heart' with ISBN 9780788191084 and ISBN 078819108X.