Gasoline (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) [Paperback]

Gregory Corso (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2001 | Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series (Book 8)

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.

Editorial Reviews

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12 Ash St. Place
2 Weird Happenings In Haarlem
Amnesia In Memphis
Birthplace Revisited
Botticelli's 'spring'
But I Do Not Need Kindness
Cambridge, First Impressions
Coney Island
The Crime
D. Scarlatti
Dementia In An African Apartment House
Dialogues From Children's Observation Ward
Doll Poem
Don't Shoot The Warthog
Ecce Homo
For Miles
Fragment From The Decadence
The Game
Greenwich Village Suicide
Hello
The Horse Was Milked
I Am 25
I Miss My Dear Cats
In My Beautiful...and Things
In The Early Morning
In The Fleeting Hand Of Time
In The Morgue
In The Tunnel-bone Of Cambridge
Into The Aperture Of An Unlikely Archimage
Italian Extravaganza
King Crow
The Last Gangster
Last Night I Drove A Car
The Last Warmth Of Arnold
The Mad Yak
Man Seated Outside My Window
Mexican Impressions
My Hands Are A City
New York Man
No Word
Ode To Coit Tower
An Old Man Said He Once Saw Emily Dickinson
On The Walls Of A Dull Furnished Room
Paris
A Pastoral Fetish
Puma In Chapultepec Zoo
Requiem For 'bird' Parker, Musician
The Runaway Girl
The Sausages
Sea Chanty
The Shakedown
The Sniper's Lament
Song
St. Lukes, Service For Thomas
Sun
This Is America
This Was My Meal
Thoughts On A Japanese Movie
Three: 1
Three: 2
Three: 3
To A Downfallen Rose
Uccello
The Vestal Lady On Brattle
Vision Epizootics
Vision Of Rotterdam
The Wreck Of The Nordling
You Came Last Season
You, Whose Mother's Lover Was Grass
Zizi's Lament
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 99 pages
• Publisher: City Lights Publishers (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872860884
• ISBN-13: 978-0872860889
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #591,276 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #96 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Anthologies

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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.

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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fill 'er up!!!, March 5, 2009

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Larryib (El Paso, Tx) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gasoline (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Paperback)

Excellent poems. full of wit. I too at times take it with me. Great gasoline for the mind.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ., July 11, 2010

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Christy Leigh Stewart "Good Mourning Sunshine" (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gasoline (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Paperback)

I'm not going to wax poetic about this book, but I enjoyed it. It had a bizarro aspect to it that I enjoyed. Mexicans sure were mentioned a lot. I guess Corso likes Mexicans.

...Wait, I think Corso is a Hispanic name. That might explain it.

11 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Beat book., December 13, 2000

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Patrick McCuller "reader" (The Mortal Plane) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gasoline (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) (Paperback)

I bring this book with me when I travel. I keep it next to the bed at night. I have spare copies.

Update 11 years later: this book lays open the soul of the Beats. On these pages the author staples the despair, joy, pain, and confusion of his unwilled existence in our glorious, frightening, maddening world. You can see and feel with him, your skin will catch fire and the heat will burn and scar your lungs.

What is the Gasoline? Read it. Corso will show you, intimately.