Gregory Corso

Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit

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Gregory Corso is still kicking the ivory applecart of tyrannical values, heralding the wild and keenly experienced life. Since the 1950s, when with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others, Corso electrified the literary establishment with what he describes as spontaneous subterranean poesy of the streets, he has fathered three fleshed angels, traveled through Europe and Egypt, seen the demise of several fellow Daddies of an Age, and now finds himself over half a century old.The lush, fervent oratory of Shelley is evident in these poems of one who may be his most ardent American heir, and the author of The Happy Birthday of Death and Elegiac… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-8112-0808-6
EAN: 9780811208086
Produktnummer: 9232719
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1981
Seitenangabe: 64 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D0.5 cm 82 g
Gewicht: 82

Über den Autor

Gregory Corso (1930-2001) was abandoned by his mother a month after his birth at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York. Growing up in foster care and on the streets of Little Italy, Corso was a juvenile delinquent who spent time in Clinton Correctional Facility, in the cell recently vacated by gangster Lucky Luciano. An aspiring poet, Corso was taken under the wing of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and became the youngest member of the Beat Generation's inner circle, with whom he lived and work in the Beat Hotel, a lodging house in Paris, during the late fifties. There he created one of his signature works, Bomb, a poem composed of typewritten strips of paper arranged in the shape of a mushroom cloud. Late in life, Corso became reunited with his mother and maintained a close relationship with her until his death.