Gregory Corso notebooks, 1960-1984

Collection

Identifier: 1978-002

Staff Only

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 at Albert Hall in London in the 1960s (Notebook #1). Notebook #11 includes a poem on the death of Oral Roberts' son.

Dates

Creation: 1960 - 1984
Creation: Majority of material found within 1975 - 1977

Creator

Corso, Gregory Nunzio, 1930-2001 (Author, Person)

Language

These materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research use by any registered reader. This material is housed off-site and will require advance notice of 1 business day for use.

Use and Copyright

This material is owned by the University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections. Unpublished manuscripts are under copyright. Therefore, permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from both the repository and the copyright holder.