A Far Rockaway of the Heart
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence75 USD
Date
1998
Category
Poetry
Description
A Far Rockaway of the Heart is Ferlinghetti’s sequel to Coney Island of the Mind, written forty years later 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 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.
Excerpt
Driving a cardboard automobile without a license
at the turn of the century
my father ran into my mother
on a fun-ride at Coney Island
having spied each other eating
in a French boardinghouse nearby
And having decided right there and then
that she was for him entirely
he followed her into
the playland of that evening
where the headlong meeting
of their ephemeral flesh on wheels
hurtled them forever together
And I now in the back seat
of their eternity
reaching out to embrace them
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