Coney Island of the Mind

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Coney Island of the Mind

Coney Island of the Mind

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Artist: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-09-14
Music Label: Rykodisc
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Music Review: The amusement park of memory
Rating: 5 Stars

Ferlinghetti continues the great tradition of American spoken poetry. The use of jazz as an accompaniment is fairly recent idea though Vachel Lindsay had a go decades past with his Daniel Jazz poem using 'Dixie' and 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'. The use of jazz on this recording seems a bit hit and miss to me. It certainly seems to have been recorded as background rather than an equal to Ferlinghetti's reading. I'm quite happy with this as I basically bought the CD to hear his reading of 'A Coney Island of the Mind' and I'm certainly not disappointed. His voice is now wonderfully mature and he easily slips into different accents and word pronunciations.

Apart from the complete Coney Island the other five tracks offer an interesting mixture of poems from the book (ISBN 0811200418) 'Autobiography' is for some reason not complete (it ends about half way through) 'I am Waiting', 'Dog', 'Christ Climbed Down' and stanza twenty-five only from 'Pictures of the Gone World'.

Ferlinghetti reads the excellent 'Autobiography' and two of his other poems, 'The Statue of St. Francis' and 'Junkman's Obbligato' on a Fantasy CD 'Poetry Readings in the Cellar' (FCD 77172) recorded in 1957 with a jazz quintet and unlike the Coney recording they play their improvisations alternately with his reading.

Both CDs feature readings from a great American poet separated by more than fifty years yet to me his work still sounds lively and relevant.

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