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
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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 toy...
Plutonian Ode: Title poem combines scientific info on 24,000-year cycle of the Great Year compared with equal half-life of Plutonium waste, accounting Homeric formula for appeasing underground millionaire Pluto Lord of Death, jack in the gnostic box of Aeons, and Adamantine Truth of ordinary mind inspiration, unhexing nuclear ministry of fear. Following poems chronologies Wyoming grass blues, a punk-rock sonnet, personal grave musing, Manhattan landscape hypertension, lovelorn heart thumps, mantric rhymes, Neruda s tearful Lincoln ode retranslated to U.S. vernacular oratory,...
Plutonian Ode: Title poem combines scientific info on 24,000-year cycle of the Great Year compared with equal half-life of Plutonium waste, ...
Many of the poems in this book are translated for the first time into English.- Accompanying the poems are rare drawings and lithographs by Mayakovsky and his circle, found in private collections of futurist books.
-what a poet
and the clear water is thick
with bloody blows on its head.
I embraced a cloud
But when I soared
it rained.-
--Frank O'Hara, -Mayakovsky- (1954)
Mayakovsky's is one of the most compelling voices in twentieth-century Russian poetry. Born in 1893, he joined the Futurist movement in 1912 and soon established himself as...
Many of the poems in this book are translated for the first time into English.- Accompanying the poems are rare drawings and lithographs by Mayakov...
Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.
It was Lawrence Ferlinghetti's first book, and it has been reprinted twenty-one times, having never been out of print. The original edition contained the first twenty-seven poems to which the author has now added eighteen new verses.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Books, author of A Coney Island of the Mind and Pictures of the Gone World, among numerous other books, has been drawing from life since his student days...
Published to celebrate forty years of City Lights publishing, which began with the letterpress printing of this book in 1955.
An impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers.
-The meticulous and loving catalog of moments, animals, plants, beings, suns, and nocturnal revelations that this poetry offers us constitutes - in my way of thinking--a terrible oracle, and at last a shout of hope. To say it in a simpler, more direct way, it is a prayer.---Alvaro Mutis
-Alberto Blanco's deep poetry inhabits both the world and the universe of imagination; these poems shed their own light and fly on their own wings.---Michael McClure
Born in Mexico...
An impressive selection, in bilingual format, from the work of one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers.
The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative 40th Anniversary Edition.
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems was originally published by City Lights Books in the Fall of 1956. Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long court trail at which a series of poets and professors persuaded the court that the book was not obscene.
Howl & Other Poems is the single most influential poetic work of the post-World War II era, with over 1,000,000...
The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1965 is here presented in a commemorative 40th Anniversary Edition...
