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 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® Gregory Corso's first book of poetry, The Vestal Lady on Brattle , was published by City Lights Press in 1955. Born in New York City and raised in Little Italy, Gregory Corso was an American Poet and the youngest of the iconic Beat Generation writers. Homeless and family-less, Corso was arrested at 13 for petty theft and larcenry and spent some time in New York's infamous jail "The Tombs." He was arrested again, but was admitted to Bellevue Hospital Center. On the night of his 18th birthday, he was arrested again and convicted as an adult, resulting in being detained in Clinton State Prison. Gasoline is dedicated to "the Angels of Clinton Prison..." Corso met Allen Ginsberg in 1951 and Ginsberg recognized Corso as "spiritually gifted." Together they traveled from New York to San Francisco to Paris where Corso wrote some of his most famous poems "Bomb" and "Marriage." His journey to, in, and around Paris resulted in his third book of poetry which included poems "The Happy Birthday of Death," "Minutes to Go," "The American Express," and "Long Live Man." He returned to New York in 1958 only to discover he and the other Beat writers had become famous literary figures. Corso and Ginsberg traveled to college campuses and read their famous works Howl , "Bomb" and "Marriage". On January 17, 2001, Corso died from prostate cancer. Used Book in Good Condition