Collection of poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat poet, and proprietor of the City Lights Bookshop in San Francisco. Ferlinghetti borrowed the title from Henry Miller's Into the Night Life, to describe his feelings as he wrote, a "circus of the soul." Ferlinghetti's "material, his tone, and phrasing, are taken from everyday life, from the 'Coney Island' of ideas and feelings in all our minds... ."--Cover blurb.