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Additional authors

1. Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
2. Harak, Rudolph de
3. Murray Printing Co. (Toronto, Ont.), printer
4. New Directions Publishing, publisher
5. James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints

Description

1. 91 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates; 21 cm

Series statement

1. New Directions paperbook ; NDP86
2. ND Paperbook 86

Subject

1. Poetry

Genre/Form

1. Poetry.

Contents

1. Notes after blacking out -- How happy I used to be -- Seaspin -- Hair -- 'Let us inspect the lyre' -- Under peyote -- Transformation & 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.

Call number

1. D-12 6404

Note

1. "A New Directions paperbook" -- title page.
2. "New Directions books are published by James Laughlin" -- title page verso.
3. Containing the "Bomb" poem fold-out in between pages 32 and 33.

Indexed in (note)

1. Carruth, H. New Directions reader
2. Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

1. Copy in Berg Coll 22-714 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Rudolph de Harak.

Author

1. Corso, Gregory.

Title

1. The happy birthday of death / Gregory Corso.

Imprint

1. New York : New Directions Books, 1960.

Copyright date

1. ©1960

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. New Directions paperbook ; NDP86
2. ND Paperbook 86

Indexed in:

1. Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 223
2. Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 48

Binding

1. Copy in Berg Coll 22-714 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Rudolph de Harak. NN

Local note

1. Copy in Berg Coll 22-714 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
2. Berg Coll. copy contains "ADC" embossed stamp on t.p.

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Berg Collection

Added author

1. Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
2. Harak, Rudolph de, cover designer.
3. Murray Printing Co. (Toronto, Ont.), printer.
4. New Directions Publishing, publisher.
5. Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.
6. Javitch, Daniel, donor.
7. Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.
8. Charters, Ann. Former owner
9. James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Other form:

1. Online version: Corso, Gregory. Happy birthday of death. [New York, J. Laughlin, 1960] (OCoLC)609933361

LCCN

1. 59015018

ISBN

1. 0811200272
2. 9780811200271

Research call number

1. Berg Coll 22-714
2. D-12 6404
3. Berg Coll Corso H37 1960