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 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
Bombs 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 and
Bomb and Marriage. On January 17, 2001, Corso died from prostate
cancer.
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