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Gregory Corso (1) (1930–2001)

Auteur van Gasoline

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In 1957, Allen Ginsberg wrote of Corso, "He's probably the greatest poet in America, and he's starving in Europe." Corso's themes are death and beauty, always in American terms. Virtually an orphan, Corso was born on Bleecker Street in New York's Greenwich Village. He spent his childhood and youth toon meer in and out of foster homes. During his numerous prison terms, he was introduced to literature by a fellow convict. On his release, he met Ginsberg, who immediately recognized his talent and helped him. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Gregory Corso

Gasoline (1958) 312 exemplaren
The Happy Birthday of Death (1960) 216 exemplaren
Mindfield: New and Selected Poems (1989) 194 exemplaren
Long Live Man (1962) 92 exemplaren
Elegiac Feelings American. (1970) 78 exemplaren
An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters (2003) — Auteur — 38 exemplaren
Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit (1981) 35 exemplaren
Wholly Communion [1966 film] (1966) 35 exemplaren
The Vestal Lady on Brattle (1969) 26 exemplaren
Minutes to Go (1960) 25 exemplaren
'Beat' Poets (1961) — Medewerker — 24 exemplaren
The American Express (1961) 20 exemplaren
Poesie. Testo inglese a fronte (1983) 12 exemplaren
Writings from Ox (1979) 11 exemplaren
Mind Field (1989) 9 exemplaren
The Japanese Notebook Ox (1974) 7 exemplaren
Gregory Corso (Riverside Interviews) (1982) — Interviewee — 6 exemplaren
Bomb (1958) 6 exemplaren
Selected Poems (1962) 5 exemplaren
Collected Plays (2021) 4 exemplaren
Gasolina y otros poemas (1980) 4 exemplaren
Francesco Clemente: Palimpsest (2012) 3 exemplaren
Clemente (2003) 3 exemplaren
Mokre more 3 exemplaren
Alchemical Poem 2 exemplaren
The Doubt of Truth 2 exemplaren
Unmuzzled ox 15 2 exemplaren
Deluge 1 exemplaar
10 Times A Poem 1 exemplaar
Five/I/'77 1 exemplaar

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The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library) (1992) — Medewerker — 1,459 exemplaren
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999) — Medewerker — 592 exemplaren
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (1995) — Medewerker — 352 exemplaren
The New American Poetry 1945-1960 (1960) — Medewerker — 318 exemplaren
The Olympia Reader (1965) — Medewerker — 279 exemplaren
The Spoken Word Revolution Redux (2007) — Medewerker — 84 exemplaren
The Cool School: Writing from America's Hip Underground (2013) — Medewerker — 79 exemplaren
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Medewerker — 68 exemplaren
Poems of Our Moment (1968) — Medewerker — 37 exemplaren
Big Table 1 (1959) — Medewerker — 18 exemplaren
Evergreen Review, 6: 23 (Mar-Apr 1962.) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren
Locus Solus II (1961) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren

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This is my first time reading Corso. Although I have never been a dedicated admirer of poetry as a literary style -- in this case -- I was inspired. And I hope this work will influence my own writing. The impressions conveyed by these poems are visual-visceral; sometimes raw, but rarely disgusting à la W. S. Burroughs. Corso's compound-word-creations and word-play-deconstructions provide great embellishment to his unique style. At first, Corso's stream of consciousness reminded me of Kerouac, but Corso goes more for the jugular via his servings of brute reality "samples" -- he is fully submerged in the realm of the subjective. That being said, he can be just as ethereal as he is blunt.

I especially enjoyed Corso's geopolitical views via "The American Way" (which foresees the rise of Evangelism and the decline of USA in general) -- and, in the same vein, "America Politica Historia, In Spontaneity". Other highlights include "Work" from "Triptych: Friend, Work, World", and the Egyptology-inspired drawings of "The Geometric Poem". "The Geometric Poem" appears in Corso's handwritten script and is often barely legible -- ultimately, I prefer the scribblings of "The Geometric Poem" over the text -- those drawings remind me of the album jacket liner artwork of the Jefferson Airplane's 1967 psychedelic masterpiece, "After Bathing at Baxer's". I'm giving this collection 5 stars because although I did not love the text unconditionally or unanimously -- what I did enjoy, which was the bulk of it, I found to be superlative. In closing -- I'm happy to have run across "Elegiac Feelings American", and I look forward to reading more of Corso's work.
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stephencbird | Sep 19, 2023 |
Reading this after many years since the 1960s,
I remember that Gregory Corse was sitting under a bridge for inspiration.

Not sure what attracted me to the poems back then, but now they all feel majorly depressing,
though BOMB is fairly incredible!
 
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m.belljackson | Sep 22, 2022 |
Gregory Corso's poem "Marriage" resonated deeply with my 10th grade self. I can still summon excellent turns of phrases by memory. While most of his poems contain the roots of brilliant ideas, or consonant phrases that beg to be spoken aloud, the truth is there is a reason he is a lesser known beat-poet. He, like Bukowski, is allergic to revising, preferring to represent his drug-addled ruminations in their rawest unedited forms. His rawness too often comes across as feigned, over-wrought, self-congratulatory, or petulant. This collection of his later poems is so strivingly artless that I find it embarrassing to even read.… (meer)
 
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reganrule | Oct 24, 2017 |
Some of these poems don't work. Actually, a lot of them don't work. But there are some gems, like "Ode to Coit Tower," "Vestal Lady on Brattle," and "You, Whose Mother's Lover Was Grass."
 
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