![]() ![]() The mouldmade Hahnemühle Bugra covering the slipcase and used throughout the book is incredibly sensuous to the touch. ![]() This is a sumptuous edition right from the first touch. Now I get to experience his poetry as channeled through the Arion Press edition of A Coney Island of the Mind. First, it was through his book Poetry as Insurgent Art, which I loved. Despite enjoying his bookstore, I didn’t come to him as a poet until fairly recently. So I’m predisposed toward Ferlinghetti for all he’s done for books and poetry already. It was poetry heaven on earth, whether or not it was bookended by Anchor Steams at Vesuvio. When the corporate bookstores could only spare a shelf or two for poetry, I could walk upstairs in City Lights and browse a whole room. Both locations have more than their fair share of poetry and not a little bit of literary and other history. ![]() ![]() But two of my favorites have always been linked: the famous Beat bar Vesuvio and Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore. Now it leans heavily towards the former and less to the latter. One constant of my visits has been bookstores. I’ve been visiting San Francisco regularly since I switched to the west coast from the east coast by way of university somewhere in between. ![]()
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