Gasoline & the Vestal Lady On Brattle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corso, Gregory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights Books, 1958.

Summary:

Gregory Corso was born on March 26, 1930 in New York City. His first book of poetry was published by City Lights Press in 1955.

Contents:

Preface

GASOLINE

Dedication

Epigraph

INTRODUCTION

ODE TO COIT TOWER

IN THE FLEETING HAND OF TIME

VISION OF ROTTERDAM

2 WEIRD HAPPENINGS IN HAARLEM

1

2

THE LAST WARMTH OF ARNOLD

AMNESIA IN MEMPHIS

MEXICAN IMPRESSIONS

I

II

III

IV

5

SUN (Automatic Poem)

PUMA IN CHAPULTEPEC ZOO

BOTTICELLI'S "SPRING"

ECCE HOMO

UCCELLO

ON THE WALLS OF A DULL FURNISHED ROOM

D. SCARLATTI

ITALIAN EXTRAVAGANZA

BIRTHPLACE REVISITED

THE LAST GANGSTER

I MISS MY DEAR CATS

BUT I DO NOT NEED KINDNESS

Poem section

3

DON'T SHOOT THE WARTHOG

I AM 25

TO A DOWNFALLEN ROSE

THREE

HELLO.

NO WORD

THE MAD YAK

THIS WAS MY MEAL

FOR MILES

DOLL POEM

LAST NIGHT I DROVE A CAR

ZIZI'S LAMENT

PARIS

THE VESTAL LADY ON BRATTLE

THOUGHTS ON A JAPANESE MOVIE

YOU CAME LAST SEASON

DEMENTIA IN AN AFRICAN APARTMENT HOUSE

CONEY ISLAND

GREENWICH VILLAGE SUICIDE

IN THE MORGUE

MY HANDS ARE A CITY

SEA CHANTY

SONG

IN THE TUNNEL-BONE OF CAMBRIDGE

4

THE SHAKEDOWN

VISION EPIZOOTICS

NEW YORK MAN

IN THE EARLY MORNING

KING CROW

IN MY BEAUTIFUL ... AND THINGS

DIALOGUES FROM CHILDREN'S OBSERVATION WARD

THE HORSE WAS MILKED

THE CRIME

THE SNIPER'S LAMENT

THIS IS AMERICA

FRAGMENT FROM THE DECADENCE

THE GAME

REQUIEM FOR "BIRD" PARKER, MUSICIAN

12 ASH ST. PLACE

THE WRECK OF THE NORDLING

MAN SEATED OUTSIDE MY WINDOW

YOU, WHOSE MOTHER'S LOVER WAS GRASS

AN OLD MAN SAID HE ONCE SAW EMILY DICKINSON

THE RUNAWAY GIRL

INTO THE APERTURE OF AN UNLIKELY ARCHIMAGE

A PASTORAL FETISH

THE SAUSAGES

ST. LUKES, SERVICE FOR THOMAS

CAMBRIDGE, FIRST IMPRESSIONS

5.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.