Corso, Gregory Nunzio, 1930-2001
Person
Biography
American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Gregory Corso notebooks, 1960-1984
Collection
Identifier: 1978-002
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of eleven notebooks which contain handwritten rough drafts of poems and letters, drawings, calculations, autobiographical notes, and in some cases, addresses and appointments. Poem titles include "Love poems to Jocelyn", "O World, Who is God", "Recollections of the 1930s", "Sadism", "I saw an angel today", "Theory on new poetics", and "The historian of the ape". Most poems are untitled. Drawings include one of Allen Ginsberg and Basil Bunting reading...
Dates:
1960 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1977
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- Subject: Poetry, Modern -- 20th century. X