The title of this book is taken from Henry Miller's "Into the Night Life" and expresses the way Lawrence Ferlinghetti felt about these poems when he wrote them during a short period in the 1950's—as if they were, taken together, a kind of Coney Island of the mind, a kind of circus of the soul.
"Lawrence gets you laughing then hits you with the truth."
― Francis Ford Coppola
"A brave man and a brave poet."
― Bob Dylan
