A far rockaway of the heart
By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780811213479
Description: A sequel to A Coney Island of the Mind (written forty years after the original in what the author has called "a poetry seizure" that lasted more than a year), A Far Rockaway of the Heart is a sequence of one hundred and one 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 and Eliot, Beckett and Joyce.
Notes: Includes index.