Octavo. Red paper boards with black cloth backstrip and gilt lettering on spine, pictorial dust jacket. First printing, stated. Pages and edges of text block mildly toned, edge wear / rubbing on boards, some light stains on top edge of text block, some very slight scuffs on joints. Jacket has very mild edge wear and is in protective mylar. Binding tight, text clean and unmarked.

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Title: Mindfield
Publisher: Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0938410857
ISBN 13: 9780938410850
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Book by Corso, Gregory

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Once a Beat bad boy, Corso has grown up, revealed to good and ill effect in this collection of new and familiar work. At his best when driven by a blast of heretical energy, the insurgent is able to persuade us of the wisdom in bedlam. "Be abnormal sex a crime? / Then be it everybody's crime," he suggests in the previously unpublished "On Chessman's Crime," contending that no act of passion is purely or simply sordid, no matter what convention may decree. In a classic like "Marriage," the poet performs a manic, hilarious balancing act in considering the right and wrong of propriety ("the girl next door") versus creative anarchy (the mischievous garble of "Radio belly! Cat shovel!"). Especially in some poems from his middle period, Corso's sense of play wanes, and he whines wordily, lectures and declaims. Still, few are as sincere--or as much fun--in making a virtue of perversity.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This first major volume by Corso in eight years includes selections from six previous collections, ranging from The Vestal Lady on Brattle (1955) to Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit (1981), plus 23 previously uncollected poems spanning his entire career (including five dated 1989). Corso's three most memorable poems--"Marriage," "Bomb," and "Elegiac Feelings American"--are included, along with others that will remind readers of Corso's lyric grace and ability to view life with enthusiasm and humor bordering on self-mockery, no matter what the cost. Even the topicality of many poems, which would date the work of lesser poets, is given continual freshness by Corso's startling imagery. Line drawings by the author, embodying the same innocence as the poems, are a perfect complement. Essential.
- Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New York
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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