21. Corso, Gregory Hair Commentary. gregory corso, along with Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg, was an early pioneer of Beat http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/corso473-des-

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22. Gregory Corso Home Page Biography, bibliography, poems, literary criticism, articles from newspapers and periodicals, Italian curios and a few essays and reviews of his poetry by Raffaele Cocchi. http://gcorso.clifo.unibo.it

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23. Gregory Corso. Morte Di Un Poeta Beat - N I C O L O P O L I - Sito Di Nicola D'U Nicola D'Ugo scrive un articolo sulla morte di gregory corso, ripercorrendone la vita e le opere. http://nicoladugo.tripod.com/saggistica/letteratura/gcmortediunpoetabeat.htm

Get Five DVDs for $.49 each. Join now. Tell me when this page is updated Gregory Corso. Morte di un poeta Beat "Produzione in serie che tutti i giovani pensino uguale vestano uguale credano uguale agiscano uguale Stare uniti questa è la Via Americana." Gregory Corso, "La Via Americana" A veva settant’anni Gregory Corso, il poeta più europeista della Beat Generation, il movimento che dagli anni Cinquanta aveva aperto la via alla contestazione giovanile in America. Si è spento a gennaio all’ospedale di North Memorial Medical Center di Robbinsdale, nel Minnesota, dove a settembre si era trasferito a casa della figlia Sheri Langerman, un’infermiera, per un tumore alla prostata. Poeta autodidatta (lesse il russo Dostoevskij, il francese Stendhal e l’inglese Percy Shelley in carcere), il suo linguaggio è considerato tutt’oggi il più onirico della Beat Generation, addirittura il più ingenuo e naïf . Nell’intento di portare la poesia a un linguaggio colloquiale, di strada, tipico dei poeti newyorchesi degli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta, seppe raccontare in modo diretto, come una cronaca vocale estemporanea, gli eventi e lo stato di salute degli americani. Anzitutto evitando la retorica di massa, dei proclami giovanili che, nella misura in cui volevano essere rivoluzionari, finivano per essere nuovamente dettati da schematismi, abitudini e vincoli formali che contrastavano con l’idea di uomo libero cui Corso aspirava. Con la sua ironia ha scritto pagine provocatorie anti-Beat, nella misura in cui, al tempo, essere Beat significava essere alla moda.

24. The Works Of Gregory Corso The Works of gregory corso. Thanks to Kelly Nagle for preparing this bibliography. AnkhPhoenix Book Shop, 1971. gregory corso Phoenix Book Shop, 1971. http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/Lists/CorsoWorks.html

The Works of Gregory Corso Thanks to Kelly Nagle for preparing this bibliography. Last updated 1995 The Vestal Lady on Brattle and other poems Richard Brukenfeld, 1955. Gasoline City light Books, 1958. A Pulp Magazine for the Dead Generation: Poems With Henk Marsman Dead Language, 1959. The Happy Birthday of Death New Directions, 1960. Minutes to Go With Sinclair Beiles, William Burroughs and Brion Gysin Two Cities, 1960. The American Express Olympia, 1961. The Minicab War: The Gotla War-Interview with Minicab Driver and Cabbie Matrix Press, 1961. Long Live Man New Directions, 1962. Selected Poems The Mutation of the Spirit Death Press, 1964. The Geometric Poem Cosmopresse, 1966. 10 Times a Poem Poets Press, 1967. Elegiac Feelings American New Directions, 1970. Ankh Phoenix Book Shop, 1971. Gregory Corso Phoenix Book Shop, 1971. The Night Last Night Was at Its Nightest Phoenix Book Shop, 1972. Earth Egg Unmuzzled Ox, 1974. Way Out: A Poem in Discord Bardo Matrix, 1974. Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit New Directions, 1981.

25. Riverside Interview: Gregory Corso (excerpt) The Interview. excerpt from an interview with gregory corso. by Gavin Selerie. GavinSelerie, The Interview, in The Riverside Interviews 3 gregory corso. http://www.poetspath.com/Corso_Interview.html

The Interview excerpt from an interview with Gregory Corso by Gavin Selerie Ladbroke, London, 1982 GS: I'd like you to tell me about your background in New Yorkthe East Side. or you name 'em the writers who were part of that scene. And then, of course, the tourists which came down on the weekend, and they never see any of the people who live there, the residents; they only see each other and they point out to each other and say, "There's one." But all they do is come down with masquerade, try to act like they're Bohemian. This is as a kid that I saw it; remember now, this is before the Beatniks and all that. Anyway, it was the hippest place in town and I thought, "A big city like New York oh yeah, Tops." And as I grew up in it and the years changed there was movings around. I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old. My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.

26. Gregory Corso - The Academy Of American Poets gregory corso The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selectedpoems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. gregory corso. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=421

27. Gregory Corso - The Academy Of American Poets The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and links. http://www.poets.org/poets/gcors

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Gregory Corso Gregory Nunzio Corso was born in New York's Greenwich Village on March 26, 1930, to teenage Italian parents. A year later, his mother moved back to Italy. After living in orphanages and foster homes, at age eleven Corso moved back in with his father, who had just remarried. After two years, however, he ran away; upon being caught he was placed in a boys' home for two years. He also spent several months in the New York City jail while being held as a material witness in a theft trial. He was returned to his father, but after running away again was sent to Bellevue Hospital for three months "for observation." At age sixteen, he began a three-year sentence at Clinton State Prison for another theft. While in prison, he read widely in the classics, including Dostoevsky, Stendahl, Shelley , Thomas Chatterton, and Christopher Marlowe, as well as the dictionary; it was there that he also began writing poems. In a Greenwich Village bar in 1950, the year of his release from prison, he met

28. Woodstock Journal - Gregory Corso A Salute to gregory corso Poet Among Poets By Edward Sanders Few havelived the life of a poet with more energy than gregory corso. http://www.woodstockjournal.com/corso6-18.html

A Salute to Gregory Corso Poet Among Poets By Edward Sanders Few have lived the life of a poet with more energy than Gregory Corso. He seems to have experienced about twenty lives from a hyper-energy source that must lead directly out of ancient Parnassus. Fearlessly he has thundered through the decades, going back for more than 50 years, beginning his poetry writing even before he met Allen Ginsberg in a bar in Greenwich Village in 1950. During those fifty years Gregory Corso has become world famous, and he has thrilled generation after generation with his poetry. Miriam and I first saw Gregory read at the Gaslight Cafe in the Village in early 1959 when we were still in NYU, and subsequently we have been onstage, backstage and on the poetry circuit with him on many occasions during the last 30 years. He's one of a kind, as they say; a legend; a man of a million anecdotes; virtually every well-published poet in America has a few Gregory Corso stories they cherish to tell. He's the real stuff. I've seen him pull a crumpled note sheet from his pocket just before heading out to a podium to thrill a crowd with a few hot-off-the-mind lines. I've seen him at a packed Town Hall in NYC literally being begged by the audience to read his famous "Marriage," hesitating for a few seconds, then reciting it as freshly as if it had been just written that morning.

29. Gregory Corso, 1930-2001 By Robert Creely Article by Robert Creeley on corso's death, January 17, 2001. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/creeley/corso.html

Gregory Corso, 1930-2001 by Robert Creeley Gregory Corso died last night (January 17), happily in his sleep in Minnesota. He had been ill for much of the past year but had recovered from time to time, saying that he'd got to the classic river but lacked the coin for Charon to carry him over. So he just dipped his toes in the water. In this time his daughter Sherry, a nurse, had been a godsend to him, securing him, steadying the ambiance, just minding the store with great love and clarity. He thought she should get Nurse of the Year recognition at the very least. There's no simple generalization to make of Gregory's life or poetry. There are all too many ways to displace the extraordinary presence and authority he was fact of. Last time we talked, he made the useful point that only a poet could say he or she was a poet only they knew. Whereas a philosopher, for instance, needed some other to say that that was what he or she was un(e) philosophe! poets themselves had to recognize and initiate their own condition. There are several quick websites that help recall him now. One gives a brief biography and discussion of a few of his poems:

30. The Best Minds Of My G-g-g-g-generation: An Evening With Gregory Corso And Allen An Evening with gregory corso and Allen Ginsberg. By Oskar Back. http://www.geocities.com/johbeil/writers/best_minds.htm

The Best Minds of My G-g-g-g-generation: An Evening with Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg I guess in the Sixties they called them happenings. As it happened, a friend of mine, Charlie Ross, managed to get the Blue Note to open its doors on a Sunday night, July 12, 1981. The scheduled event was a reading by Gregory Corso, with Allen Ginsberg and the Shambala Glass Chicken Rock and Roll Band. What did happen was the result of the fashionably tardy half-hour delay, a crowd left to warp in the rain, and several poets in search of an audience. "Not quite, big fella," admonished the manager. "I'm the boss ." It was then that I got a sick feeling, like when you're 200 miles from where you're going and you smell a burning wheel bearing. I found out later that the whole thing had been railroaded through under the auspices of the Boulder Poetry Project, and behind the back of the Boulder Council on the Performing Arts. Charlie had only to take his eye off things for five minutes before the hot-box really started smoking. Allen Ginsberg was setting up with his band. A reliable source had it that he'd been to a Clash concert and read a few of his poems while they accompanied. He was even invited to tape a session with them for their next album. No doubt Allen had his heart set on being a rock star. We might have seen a new Allen, wearing wraparound punk shades, spitting on the Mall. But somehow the session with the Clash never came off. Allen returned to Boulder from New York with a new dream, and tonight would be his shot at making it a reality. But when I watched him trying to tune the band to his harmonium, I could only wish him luck.

31. Gregory Corso New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. corso, gregory. Gasoline. San FranciscoCity Lights, 1958. corso, gregory. The Happy Birthday of Death. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4204/corso.html

Gregory the Herald: A Revisitation of the Beats by Lylah Franco Another popular misconception surrounding the Beat Movement is that it was political. People often think of the Beats as the forefathers of the 1960's hippies. This probably stems from Allen Ginsberg's later advocacy of psychedelic drugs and involvement in protests against the Vietnam War. However, writes Beat critic Bruce Cook, "What the movement was, essentially, was apoliticala last-ditch stand for individualism and against conformity." (85) With the exception of Ginsberg, none of the original members of the Beat Generation ever really aligned themselves with the causes of the 60's. Burroughs was a self-styled anarchist, Kerouac was a conservative, and Corso supported American involvement in Vietnam. When reading Corso's poetry, the qualities that immediately grasp the reader are his honesty and wit. Ginsberg was quoted saying of Corso, "One reason I dig Gregoryhe'll write about anything, socks, army, food... He's extended the area of poetic experience further out than anyone I know" (Watson 125). As implied in Ginsberg's remark, Corso accomplishes much of this expansion through the original, often humorous way in which he treats practical, familiar subject matter. "Marriage," considered by many critics to be Corso's masterpiece, examines the 1950's American version of the institution. In this poem Corso describes his own fantasy of suburban life: So much to do! Like sneaking into Mr. Jones' house late at night

32. OAC: corso (gregory) Papers. Title gregory corso Papers, 19801991. Collection numberSpecial Collections M0877. Creator corso, gregory. Extent 1.5 linear ft. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf200001v2

Corso (Gregory) Papers Finding Aids Browse Stanford University Manuscripts Division Corso (Gregory) Papers Corso (Gregory) Papers View options: Standard Entire finding aid (13K bytes) Contents: Descriptive Summary Administrative Information Scope and Content Access Terms Container List ... Series III. Ephemera, letters and photographs Descriptive Summary Title: Gregory Corso Papers, 1980-1991 Collection number: Special Collections M0877 Creator: Corso, Gregory. Extent: 1.5 linear ft. Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. To access these materials, please contact the contributing institution: Stanford University, Manuscripts Division Comments? Questions? The Online Archive of California (OAC) is an initiative of the California Digital Library

33. OAC: Finding Aids Browse UC San Diego Mandeville Special Collections Library corso (gregory). “The Other Side of April.”. corso (gregory). http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2p30053n

Corso (Gregory). “The Other Side of April.” Finding Aids Browse UC San Diego Mandeville Special Collections Library Corso (Gregory). “The Other Side of April.” Corso (Gregory). “The Other Side of April.” View options: Standard Entire finding aid (3K bytes) Contents: DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY Administrative Information BIOGRAPHY SCOPE AND CONTENT DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY Title: Gregory Corso. "The Other Side of April.", 1956 Collection number: MSS 0283 Extent: 0.10 linear feet (1 item (147 leaves).) Repository: Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, UC, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 Shelf Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. To access these materials, please contact the contributing institution: UC San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections Library Comments? Questions? The Online Archive of California (OAC) is an initiative of the California Digital Library

34. Gregory Corso-COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION-1997 Pisces Player gregory corso. Shortstop. 1997 Paradise Pisces. American Poet Born March 26, 1930Died January 17, 2001 gregory corso is one of the original Beat poets. http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/corso7.html

Gregory Corso Shortstop 1997 Paradise Pisces American Poet Born March 26, 1930 Died January 17, 2001 Gregory Corso is one of the original Beat poets. He met Allen Ginsberg in 1950 just after his release from prison where he served a three-year sentence for committing a robbery when he was 16. In prison he had begun writing poetry, some of which he showed Ginsberg. Ginsberg liked the poetry and was also attracted to the dark, Italian Corso who, at 20 years of age, had already experienced the underworld of the underclass. Born in New York City, his mother had died and his father had abandoned him, Corso was a product of the very environment the more middle-class Kerouac and Ginsberg exalted. Corso met Kerouac in 1951. They were friends despite the fact that Corso slept with Kerouac's girlfriend in 1953. The details are described in Kerouac's novel The Subterraneans . Years later the two friends went out drinking together. They ended up at a working-class bar called "The Kettle of Fish", and proceeded to antagonize the clientele. Kerouac got the shit kicked out of him and Corso "befuddled and appalled", according to Kerouac's girlfriend, Joyce Glassman Johnson, managed to get his bloodied friend over to her house. With regard to Corso as a poet, his peers have commented:

35. Corso-Cosmic Baseball Association corso Cosmic Batting Record YEAR TEAM POS B.AVG At Bats Hits HR RBI -corso, gregory 1983 Beats ss http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/corso6.html

1996 Paradise Pisces Gregory Corso, Shortstop American Poet Born March 26, 1930 Died January 17, 2001 This poet was born in New York's Greenwich Village. At the ripe old and sophisticated age of 16, Mr. Corso landed in jail for stealing. At 20, Corso met Allen Ginsberg who liked the prison writing of this non-conformist Beat Generation writer. Levi Asher, keeper of an excellent Beatnik gateway- Literary Kicks on the World Wide Web, describes Corso: "More famous then [1950s-60s] than he is now, he has a standing alongside Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs that is sort of comparable to Zeppo's standing alongside Groucho, Harpo, and Chico. That is, he isn't one of the big three, but if you want a big four, he's the fourth" Corso comes to the Pisces after two seasons with the Dharma Beats. He was a rookie in 1983, but didn't play again until last season. Selection from Minefield Interview with Corso, Ginsberg, and Burroughs Corso- Cosmic Batting Record YEAR TEAM POS B.AVG At Bats Hits HR RBI - - Corso, Gregory 1983 Beats ss .208 592 123 35 4 1995 Beats ss .347 346 120 11 55 *Cosmic Seasons: 2 .277 938 243 46 59 To the Top of this Plate To the 1996 Pisces Roster Plate To Season 1996 Plate To CBA's Home Plate 1996 Cosmic Player- Corso URL http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/corso6.html

36. Empty Mirror Books ~ Beat Generation & Small-Press Poetry 001361 corso, gregory. Holiday Greetings from The Phoenix Book Shop. New York,NY The Phoenix Book Shop, 1972. 001392 corso, gregory. Long Live Man. http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/featuredgc.html

buy books: view cart how to buy books books for sale: search our inventory books by: Michael McClure Gregory Corso Diane di Prima L. Ferlinghetti ... see all authors... categories: poets A-Z Beat books literary journals modern art ... forum [004054] Corso, Gregory. The Saturn Family: A Portfolio of Six Drawings. Charleston, WV: The Parchment Gallery, 1981. First Edition. Prints in Portfolio . SIGNED. Near Fine / Very Good. Number 17 of 80 sets of prints, each numbered and signed by Gregory Corso & laid into an illlustrated portfolio. The publisher says, "Gregory Corso has taken up brush as well as pen and his Thurberesque characters have delighted art and poery enthusiasts for a decade. The Parchment Gallery is pleased to produce a portfolio of his Saturn figures in celebration of his art and the achievements of the Voyager I exploration among the stars." The prints are in near-fine condition, 3 have small dings at one corner - nearly unnoticeable. Green parchment portfolio has a bump to top corner, else fine. Printed on 65 lb. Parchtext. $225.00 San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1977. First Thus. Wrappers. Good. 1st Combined Editon, 1977. Covers are worn with some soiling. book is a little warped with some dampstaining (coffee?) at edges. A reading copy. $5.00

37. 'BOMB' 'BOMB' by gregory corso. The pictorial arrangement of text on thepage is part of the experience of this poem, and I've tried my http://www.litkicks.com/Texts/Bomb.html

'BOMB' by Gregory Corso The pictorial arrangement of text on the page is part of the experience of this poem, and I've tried my best to reproduce the positioning as it appears in Corso's original, published in 1958 by City Lights. I think this makes a very smart and original statement. To simply hate the A-Bomb and H-Bomb is easy. But the Bomb is real; we're stuck with it. As Corso says, it is 'necessary to love' the Bomb. Corso read this poem at New College in Oxford in 1958. Many members of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament were there, and they didn't appreciate Corso's humorous, ambivalent tone. He was heckled. Allen Ginsberg tried to explain what Corso was trying to express, and ended up calling the students a bunch of assholes. This does not seem surprising, in retrospect. Politics and humor have never coexisted peacefully, at least not for long. Like many Buddhists, I'll leave the politics to others and offer my help when it's needed, and cast my own lot with humor. Literary Kicks

38. Literary Kicks GregoryCorso Membership is free and is required for participation. Join here. gregory corsoby brooklyn, gregory corso was born on March 26, 1930 in New York City. http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/page.jsp?what=GregoryCorso

39. Poetry Previews: Gregory Corso The poetry of gregory corso. corso, gregory Bibliography of corso's works, aswell as synopsis of his life, and links to other Beat generation authors. http://www.poetrypreviews.com/poets/poet-corso.html

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