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Gregory Corso, 1930 - 2001
Poems you can read on the Net, books you can order online
 More of this Feature
• Gregory Corso, 1930 - 2001, memories & stories from Bob Holman
• “Blowing Up the Last Beat,” a memoir by Bob Timm
 
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“Lots of us propose to be poets but who finally stakes all, or just takes all, as being that way?”
• Creeley on Corso (from PAULMCD1)
 

Tell us about the time you met him, in life or in poetry, or share your poem his spirit inspired.
• Stories & Poems for Gregory Corso
 
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• “Bring Me the Head of Gregory Corso” by Mike Golden, translated into French by Raymond Federman & Patricia Privat-Standley
 
 Elsewhere on the Web
• “Praise Poem for Corso” by Bob Holman
• “Devotions to Gregory Corso” in Jack Magazine (Vol. I, No. 2)
• Special Tribute to Gregory Corso in Jack Magazine (Vol. I, No. 3)
• Bio & quotes on “Bomb” & “Marriage” at Modern American Poetry
• “A Tribute to Gregory Corso” in Ed SandersWoodstock Journal (Sep 2000)
• Excerpted interview with Corso at the Museum of American Poetics (where you will also find a streaming video of Corso reading at Naropa)
• “A Conversation with Jack Powers on the Late Gregory Corso,” interview by Doug Holder at Lucid Moon
• Steve Silberman’s appreciation of Corso in The San Francisco Chronicle
 
 


POEMS BY GREGORY CORSO ONLINE:


BOOKS BY GREGORY CORSO:
  • Mindfield: New and Selected Poems (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1997)


  • Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit (New Directions, 1994)


  • Gasoline: The Vestal Lady on Brattle, Vol. 8 (City Lights Books, 1992)


  • Long Live Man (New Directions, 1977)


  • Elegiac Feelings American (New Directions, 1972)


  • The Happy Birthday of Death (New Directions, 1972)


RECORDING BY GREGORY CORSO:
  • Die on Me: The Final Recordings (produced by Hal Willner, Koch Records, 2002)

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