Mindfield New and Selected Poems

by Corso, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9781560252016
• ISBN10: 1560252014
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-12-30
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Summary

Republished with a new cover and a new introduction by David Amram, this publication includes forewords by two legendary Beat writers, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

Author Biography

Gregory Corso is one of the stars of the Beat Generation. He has published six books of poetry since 1955. Renowned composer David Amram collaborated with Jack Kerouac in the first-ever live jazz poetry reading in 1957. Both Corso and Amram live in New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword: On Corso's Virtues
Introductory Notes
Introduction
Greenwich Village Suicide	p. 3
In the Morgue	p. 4
Sea Chanty	p. 5
Song	p. 6
The Horse was Milked	p. 7
Requiem for "Bird" Parker, Musician	p. 8
12 Ash St. Place	p. 12
The Wreck of the Nordling	p. 13
A Pastoral Fetish	p. 13
St. Lukes, Service for Thomas	p. 14
Cambridge, First Impressions	p. 15
In the Fleeting Hand of Time	p. 21
Amnesia in Memphis	p. 23
Mexican Impression	p. 24
Sun	p. 26
Puma in Chapultepec Zoo	p. 27
Botticelli's "Spring"	p. 28
Uccello	p. 29
On the Walls of a Dull Furnished Room	p. 30
Italian Extravaganza	p. 30
Birthplace Revisited	p. 31
The Last Gangster	p. 31
But I Do Not Need Kindness	p. 32
Don't Shoot the Warthog	p. 34
I Am 25	p. 35
Three	p. 36
Hello	p. 37
The Mad Yak	p. 38
This Was My Meal	p. 39
For Miles	p. 40
Doll Poem	p. 41
Last Night I Drove a Car	p. 42
Zizi's Lament	p. 43
Notes After Blacking Out	p. 47
How Happy I Used to Be	p. 48
Seaspin	p. 50
Hair	p. 51
Under Peyote	p. 54
Transformation and Escape	p. 55
I Held a Shelley Manuscript	p. 58
On Pont Neuf	p. 59
Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway	p. 60
Marriage	p. 62
Bomb	p. 65
She Doesn't Know He Thinks He's God	p. 70
Dream of a Baseball Star	p. 71
Giant Turtle	p. 73
A Dreamed Realization	p. 74
Paranoia in Crete	p. 75
Clown	p. 76
The Sacre-Coeur Cafe	p. 85
Mortal Infliction	p. 86
From Another Room	p. 86
Power	p. 87
Army	p. 93
1959	p. 97
Man	p. 101
Dear Girl	p. 102
Writ When I Found Out His Was an Unmarked Grave	p. 104
Happening on a German Train	p. 105
European Thoughts 1959	p. 106
The Love of Two Seasons	p. 107
Friend	p. 108
Halloween	p. 109
Stars	p. 109
Seed Journey	p. 110
The Saving Quality	p. 110
A Difference of Zoos	p. 111
Some Greek Writings	p. 112
Active Night	p. 114
A Race of Sound	p. 114
Writ on the Steps of Puerto Rican Harlem	p. 115
They	p. 117
For	p. 117
Danger	p. 118
The Second Night in NYC After 3 Years	p. 119
Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday	p. 120
Elegiac Feelings American (for the dear memory of John Kerouac)	p. 125
Spontaneous Requiem for the American Indian	p. 135
Lines Written Nov. 22, 23-1963 - in Discord	p. 140
The American Way	p. 144
Of One Month's Reading of English Newspapers	p. 151
America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity	p. 152
God is a Masturbator	p. 156
Ode to Old England and Its Language	p. 157
Columbia U Poesy Reading - 1975	p. 161
Sunrise	p. 166
Sunset	p. 168
I Met This Guy Who Died	p. 169
Earliest Memory	p. 170
What the Child Sees	p. 171
Wisdom	p. 171
For Homer	p. 172
For Miranda	p. 174
The Leaky Lifeboat Boys	p. 175
How Not to Die	p. 177
Inter and Outer Rhyme	p. 178
Youthful Religious Experiences	p. 179
Dear Villon	p. 181
Proximity	p. 182
Many Have Fallen	p. 182
Nevermore Baltimore	p. 183
When a Boy	p. 186
Getting to the Poem	p. 187
Ah ... Well	p. 189
Spirit	p. 190
I Gave Away ...	p. 191
Galactic Birth	p. 192
In Praise of Neanderthal Man	p. 194
Destiny	p. 197
The Whole Mess ... Almost	p. 199
When We All ...	p. 201
Alchemy	p. 202
Feelings on Getting Older	p. 203
For Lisa, 2	p. 206
A Guide for My Infant Son	p. 206
Rembrandt - Self-Portrait (1960)	p. 209
Emily Dickenson the Trouble With You Is - (1960)	p. 210
One Day ... (1960)	p. 211
On Chessman's Crime (1961)	p. 212
A Bed's Lament (1962)	p. 213
Direction Sign in London Zoo (1962)	p. 213
St. Tropez, Early Morning (1962)	p. 214
Berlin Zoo (1962)	p. 215
Vermeer (1962)	p. 216
3 (1962)	p. 217
Reflection (1962)	p. 218
Commission Unfulfilled (1962)	p. 219
Apples (1962)	p. 219
30th Year Dream (1966)	p. 220
The Doubt of Truth (1980)	p. 222
The Doubt of Lie (1980)	p. 223
Window (1982)	p. 225
Hi (1982)	p. 228
Love Poem for Three for Kaye and Me (1985)	p. 230
Noted for Having Hard Heads (Testa Dura) (1989)	p. 232
Fire Report - No Alarm (1989)	p. 234
Poet Talking to Himself in the Mirror (1989)	p. 236
Field Report (1989)	p. 238
Drawings and Poems from a Notebook	p. 269
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