In the first poem of this collection, the author writes "In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment they first attained the title of suffering humanity."
In the first poem of this collection, the author writes "In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment they first attained the title of suffering humanity." Another poem notes that "even in heaven they don't sing all the time" after beginning "The World is a Beautiful Place." Seven pieces are called Oral Messages, including "I Am Waiting," in this book, whose title was taken from Henry Miller's Into the Night Life.  Its author's second collection, it was published three years after Pictures of the Gone World, and its sequel is entitled ►A Far Rockaway of the Heart. FTP, name this 1958 collection by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with a title referencing a neighborhood in New York City.
In the first poem of this collection, the author writes "In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment they first attained the title of suffering humanity."
A Coney Island of the Mind