| Gasoline Contributor(s): Corso, Gregory (Author) |
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ISBN: 0872860884 ISBN-13: 9780872860889 Publisher: City Lights Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1958 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 76010440 |
| Series: City Lights Pocket Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 4.86" W x 6.36" (0.22 lbs) 99 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle is volume number 8 in the City Lights Pocket Series. Open this book as you would a box of crazy toys, take in your hands a refinement of beauty out of a destructive atmosphere. These combinations are imaginary and pure, in accordance with Corso's individual (therefore universal) desire.--Allen Ginsberg Gregory is a gambler. He suffers reverses, like every man who takes chances. But his vitality and resilience always shine through, with a light that is more than human: The immortal light of his muse.--William S. Burroughs . . . A touch young kid from the Lower East Side who rose like an angel over the rooftops and sang Italian songs as sweet as Caruso and Sinatra, but in words . . . Amazing and Beautiful Gregory Corso, The one and only Gregory the Herald. Read slowly and see.--Jack Kerouac M]ore than fifty years on from when it was first published in 1958, Gasoline (City Lights, 1958) by Beat poet Gregory Corso is a seminal book in the birth of that particular literary generation.--Paul Stubbs, 3AM Magazine |