{"id":3124,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/lawrence-ferlinghetti-a-coney-island-of-the-mind\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"lawrence-ferlinghetti-a-coney-island-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3124","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Ferlinghetti &#8211; A Coney Island of the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/AConeyIslandoftheMind.jpg\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"2\" alt=\"Lawrence Ferlinghetti\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Lawrence Ferlinghetti<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>A Coney Island of the Mind<\/strong><\/font><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\"><br \/>(Rykodisc &#8211; 1999)<br \/> by Matthew S. Robinson<\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">    Though many cars of this distant train of thought were written at once   &#8220;under the influence of Eros, Pan [and] red wine&#8221; and originally intended to   be accompanied by live jazz as &#8220;oral messages&#8221; rather than print-gagged   poems, the continuity of the delivery is often barely as consistent as the   messages expressed through it. Though there are some common themes amongst   Ferlinghetti&#8217;s, even they are random and inconsistent. As the Poet Laureate   of San Francisco, the West Coast Beat mentions his hometown repeatedly,   sometimes within the same &#8220;oral message&#8221; or even the same line.<\/p>\n<p> Similarly   repetitive name-droppings of Christ and other craftsmen (not to mention the   infamous Johnny Nolan), sunbathers, elephants and sexual organs and   functions do not an East Coast carnival scene paint.   In many cases, the aged poet&#8217;s sibilant voice and shaky pacing and his occasional trasncript editions make him sound more like a reminiscent storyteller than a   contemporary truth-teller. Even so, the portrait of the poet as an old man   is a picture of a lo-fi guy having fun in a high-fi studio, complete with   all the sound and mic effects he never had as a boy. Despite the   generational gap, the time on your dirty ol&#8217; grandpa&#8217;s lap is not often   boring. And even when it is, sax-man Dana Colley (of Morphine fame) makes   the untimely timing more on-time and keeps the mental midway rides rolling.   As poetry, Ferlinghetti&#8217;s word play and prognostication are insightful and   provocative. It just may be too late to go back to Coney Island.   <\/font>     <\/p>\n<p><font face=\"verdana\" size=\"1\">\u00a9 2004, M. S. Robinson, ARR<\/font>            <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Ferlinghetti A Coney Island of the Mind(Rykodisc &#8211; 1999)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}