Mindfield: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Corso, Gregory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560252014 ISBN 13: 9781560252016

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.
New rare sketches and notes from the author's personal journal, forewords from two of the world's leading poets of the Beat Generation, and an introduction by David Amram, the man who collaborated with Jack Kerouac in the first-ever live poetry reading in 1957, are collected here for the first time in this revised and unique edition of Mindfield. This poetry is an affront to all that limits, restrains, or frightens. "Death I unsalute you," Gregory declares. Beyond energy and sheer brilliance, these poems offer the wisdom of a man unstuck and a mind content with the freedom of knowing truth without being afraid of it.

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About the Author

Gregory Corso was born in New York City in 1930. In 1956, he moved to the West Coast where he contributed to the extraordinary artistic ferment of the era, becoming a central figure in the emerging Beat Generation literary movement. Since 1961, he has alternated travel and residence in Europe and New York with teaching residencies. He has published seven previous book sin the U.S. since 1955.
David Amram is a pioneer of World Music, virtuoso, performer, conductor, and composer of uncompromising originality. Since the 1950s, Amram's compositions and his unique approach to music have found a worldwide audience. He lives in New York City.

Review

12 Ash St. Place
1959
3
30th Year Dream
Active Night
Ah... Well
Alchemy
America Politica Historia, In Spontaneity
The American Way: 1
The American Way: 2
The American Way: 3
Amnesia In Memphis
Apples
Army
Berlin Zoo: 1
Berlin Zoo: 2
Birthplace Revisited
Bomb
Botticelli's 'spring'
But I Do Not Need Kindness
Cambridge, First Impressions
Clown: 1
Clown: 10
Clown: 2
Clown: 3
Clown: 4
Clown: 5
Clown: 6
Clown: 7
Clown: 8
Clown: 9
Columbia U Poesy Reading-1975: Poem
Columbia U Poesy Reading-1975: Prologue
Commission Unfulfilled
Danger
Dear Girl
Dear Villon
Destiny
A Difference Of Zoos
Direction Sign In London Zoo
Doll Poem
Don't Shoot The Warthog
The Doubt Of Lie
The Doubt Of Truth
Dream Of A Baseball Star
A Dreamed Realization
Earliest Memory
Elegiac Feelings American: 1
Elegiac Feelings American: 2
Elegiac Feelings American: 3
Elegiac Feelings American: 4
Emily Dickinson-the Trouble With You Is
European Thoughts 1959
Feelings On Getting Older
Field Report
Fire Report-no Alarm
For
For Homer
For Lisa, 2
For Miles
For Miranda
Friend
From Another Room
Galactic Birth
Getting To The Poem
Giant Turtle
God Is A Masturbater
Greenwich Village Suicide
A Guide For My Infant Son
Hair
Halloween
Happening On A German Train
Hello
Hi
The Horse Was Milked
How Happy I Used To Be
How Not To Die
I Am 25
I Gave Away
I Held A Shelley Manuscript
I Met This Guy Who Died
In Praise Of Neanderthal Man
In The Fleeting Hand Of Time
In The Morgue
Inner & Outer Rhyme
Italian Extravaganza
The Last Gangster
Last Night I Drove A Car
The Leaky Lifeboat Boys
Lines Written Nov. 22, 23 - 1963 In Discord
The Love Of Two Seasons
Love Poem For Three For Kaye & Me
The Mad Yak
Man
Many Have Fallen
Marriage
Mexican Impressions
Mortal Infliction
Nevermore Baltimore
Noted For Having Hard Heads (testa Dura)
Notes After Blacking Out
Ode To Old England & Its Language
Of One Month's Reading Of English Newspapers
On Chessman's Crime
On Pont Neuf
On The Walls Of A Dull Furnished Room
One Day
Paranoia In Crete
A Pastoral Fetish
Poet Talking To Himself In The Mirror
Poets Hitchhiking On The Highway
Power
Proximity
Puma In Chapultepec Zoo
A Race Of Sound
Reflection
Rembrandt - Self Portrait
Requiem For 'bird' Parker, Musician
The Sacre-coeur Cafe
The Saving Quality
Sea Chanty
Seaspin
Second Night In N.y.c. After 3 Years
Seed Journey
She Doesn't Know He Thinks He's God
Some Greek Writings
Song
Spirit
Spontaneous Requiem For The American Indian
St. Lukes, Service For Thomas
St. Tropez, Early Morning
Stars
Sun
Sunrise
Sunset
They
This Was My Meal
Three: 1
Three: 2
Three: 3
Transformation & Escape: 1
Transformation & Escape: 2
Uccello
Under Peyote
Vermeer
What The Child Sees
When A Boy
When We All
The Whole Mess Almost
Window
Wisdom
The Wreck Of The Nordling
Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday
Writ On The Steps Of Puerto Rican Harlem
Writ When I Found Out His Was An Unmarked Grave
Youthful Religious Experiences
Zizi's Lament
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1560252014
• ISBN 13: 9781560252016
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 292