The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1996

Directed by Christopher Felver

Christopher Felver's enormously engaging documentary is a serious and powerful portrait of San Francisco's legendary poet, painter and City Lights publisher. Lawrence Ferlinghetti has been a vital creative force in the American literary scene since the 1950's when he arrived in San Francisco and began to write his infamous poems, including A Coney Island of the Mind.