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Winter Ross's avatar

I had a copy of "Coney Island of the Mind" in high school. I think I may have memorized it, when I was supposed to be memorizing Hamlet.

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TheStoryIsTheThing's avatar

A very good use of your academic career, Winter! (Although ‘Hamlet,’ of course, has many redeeming features.) But Ferlinghetti’s work is a usual corrective to the deliberately incomplete renderings of American history, governance and malpractice in the world.

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