A Coney Island of the Mind is a collection of poetry by
Lawrence Ferlinghetti originally published in 1958. It contains some of Ferlinghetti's most famous poems, such as "I Am Waiting" and "Junkman's Obbligato", which were created for
jazz accompaniment. There are approximately a million copies in print of
A Coney Island, and the book has been translated into over a dozen languages. It remains one of the best-selling and most popular books of poetry ever published. Because some of the material had been previously published, the first edition of
Coney Island bears both a 1955 and a 1958 copyright.