Which Beat Generation writer published the poetry collection Gasoline in 1958?

Gregory Corso published the poetry collection Gasoline in 1958.

Corso was one of the central poets associated with the Beat Generation, alongside Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs. Gasoline appeared during the period when Beat writing was gaining a wider readership through poetry readings, small presses, and independent bookstores.

The collection helped establish Corso’s reputation for combining playful language, surreal images, philosophical questions, and rebellious themes. Although his work is often grouped with Ginsberg’s and Kerouac’s, Corso developed a distinct poetic voice that could shift rapidly from comic wordplay to serious reflections on death, love, and society.

Gasoline is sometimes confused with Corso’s later collection The Happy Birthday of Death, published in 1960. The two books belong to the same creative period, but they are separate collections. Corso also wrote the long poem Bomb, which became another important example of his experimental Beat poetry.