The setting of the book varies from poem to poem. The poems are all situated in the modern world, but they are also often contrasted with the past world, causing the past to be part of the setting as well. Some of the setting is within works of art as he compares them to modern reality. Ferlinghetti situated most of these poems in the United States of America, but sometimes he wanders to Europe. At times, he even views the world as a collective body, especially in "The Long Street" where he expresses his opinion that the entire world is just one long road.
A Coney Island of the Mind, Poems