Gasoline & the Vestal Lady on Brattle

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1979. Second printing. Red duodecimo, pocket book, 99 pages; 16 cm. Very mild rubbing to spine head and foot, sunned spine, faint soiling and spotting to fore-edges, light fading to covers and spine, very gentle rubbing to edges, faint soiling to front cover, two spots to title page, bright pages in tight binding, else Very Good. Paperback. ISBN: 0872860884

Contents: Gasoline. Introduction / Allen Ginsberg -- Ode to Coit Tower -- In the fleeting hand of time -- Vision of Rotterdam -- 2 weird happenings in Haarlem -- Last warmth of Arnold -- Amnesia in Memphis -- Mexican impressions -- Sun -- Puma in Chapultepec zoo -- Botticelli's spring -- Ecce homo -- Uccello -- On the walls of a dull furnished room -- D Scarlatti -- Italian extravaganza -- Birthplace revisited -- Last gangster -- I miss my dear cats -- But I do not need kindness -- Don't shoot the warthog -- I am -- To a downfallen rose -- Three -- Hello -- No word -- Mad yak -- This was my meal -- For miles -- Doll poem -- Last night I drove a car -- Zizi's lament -- Paris.The vestal lady on Brattle. The vestal lady on Brattle -- Thoughts on a Japanese movie -- You came last season -- Dementia in an African apartment house -- Coney Island -- Greenwich Village suicide -- In the morgue -- My hands are a city -- Sea chanty -- Song -- In the tunnel-bone of Cambridge -- Shakedown -- Vision epizootics -- New York man -- In the early morning -- King Crow -- In my beautiful -- Dialogues from children's observation ward -- Horse was milked -- Crime -- Sniper's lament -- This is America -- Fragment from the decadence -- Game -- Requiem for "Bird" Parker, musician -- 12 Ash St Place -- Wreck of the Nordling -- Man seated outside my window -- You, whose mother's lover was grass -- Old man said he once saw Emily Dickinson -- Runaway girl -- Into the aperture of an unlikely archimage -- Pastoral fetish -- Sausages -- St Lukes, service for Thomas -- Cambridge, first impressions. Series: City Lights pocket poets series, # 8. Poetry.