{"product_id":"the-happy-birthday-of-death","title":"The Happy Birthday of Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: New Directions, 1960. First edition (stated). Black octavo; 91, [3] pages, [1] folded leaf of b\u0026amp;w plates; 21 cm. Very mild wear to spine foot and head, light fading to spine, faint soiling to covers, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, else Very Good(+). Paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. Contents: Notes after blacking out -- How happy I used to be -- Seaspin -- Hair -- 'Let us inspect the lyre' -- Under peyote -- Transformation \u0026amp; Escape -- Discord -- I held a Shelley manuscript -- 1953 -- On Pont Neuf -- Spontaneous poem after having seen the Metropolitan Museum -- Waterchew! -- Poets hitchhiking on the highway -- Marriage -- Bomb -- Food -- She doesn't know he think's he's God -- The frightening difference -- Death -- Medieval anatomy -- Early mornings writings -- Dream of a baseball star -- No doubt what he saw -- Written while watching the Yankees play Detroit -- A little lost -- Giant turtle -- A dreamed realization -- For K.R. who killed himself in Charles Street jail -- Paranoia in Crete -- Clown -- Away one year -- On Palatine -- A moment's wish -- Park -- The Sacre-Coeur Cafe -- Gargoyles -- For Bunny Lang -- Written in nosalgia for Paris -- Mortal infliction -- From another room -- Looking at the map of the world -- Heave the hive with new bees -- Owl -- All life is a rotary club -- Satyr;s chant -- Spring's melodious hearld -- Power -- Army -- Police -- 1959.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Corso, Gregory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46055885504770,"sku":"88464.0","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/holder_4_795f0b6a-e0a1-4934-9edd-608fd510ebfd.jpg?v=1744087518","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/the-happy-birthday-of-death","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}