Robert LaVigne (American, 1928 – 2014)
Gasoline, 1957
oil on masonite with metal foil edging
Robert A. Wilson Collection
Robert LaVigne painted this unique sign for the publication of Gregory Corso’s Gasoline, part of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Pocket Poets Series. Although the circumstances of its production are obscure, it seems to have been displayed at City Lights in conjunction with a poetry reading at the book’s unveiling. As a work of art, it is prescient of the Pop Art movement that emerged five years later, which often focused on signage and visual text.
John Clellon Holmes
Go, 1952
C. Scribner’s Sons, New York
![William Lee [William S. Burroughs]. Junkie, 1953.](https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2019/10/wm_lee_burroughs_junkie001-e1571078279706.jpg "William Lee [William S. Burroughs]. Junkie, 1953.")
William Lee [William S. Burroughs]
Junkie, 1953
Ace Books, New York
Michael McClure
Ghost Tantras, 1964
Villers publications LTD. City Lights, San Francisco
Jack Micheline
River of Red Wine: and Other Poems, intro by Jack Kerouac,
1958
Troubador Press, New York
Neal Cassady
The First Third & Other Writings, 1971
City Lights, San Francisco
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pictures of the Gone World, 1955
City Lights Books, San Francisco, Pocket Poets Series no. 1
Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums, 1958
Viking Press, New York
Gregory Corso
Gasoline, 1958
City Lights Books, San Francisco. Pocket Poets Series no. 8
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Coney Island of the Mind, 1958
New Directions, New York
Bob Kaufman
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, 1965
New Directions, New York
Jack Kerouac
Mexico City Blues, 1959
Grove Press, New York
Allen Ginsberg
Kaddish and Other Poems, 1961
City Lights Books, San Francisco. Pocket Poets Series no. 14
Bob Kaufman
Golden Sardine, 1967
City Lights Books, San Francisco. Pocket Poets Series no. 21
Peter Orlovsky
Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs, 1978
City Lights Books, San Francisco. Pocket Poets Series no. 37
Gary Snyder
Riprap, 1959
Origin Press, Kyoto. Distributed by City Lights Books, San Francisco
City Lights Books, San Francisco. Pocket Poets Series no. 21
