Book Description
A collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso.
Author : Gregory Corso
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811200264
A collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso.
Author : Gregory Corso
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 1970-01-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811225666
A collection of poems by the renowned Beat poet, Gregory Corso. Gregory Corso's collection of poems contains works of major proportions. The title poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac, fusing a memorial to the poet's dead friend with a bitter lament for the present state of America. The second major work, "The Geometric Poem," published previously in a limited edition by Fernanda Pivano in Italy, is a complex visionary restatement of themes from ancient Egyptian religion. Reproduced in facsimile from Corso's handwritten sheets, his marginal decorations, drawings and glyphs are included. The balance of the book is drawn from his shorter poems. Corso's reputation as a leading poet and co-founder of the Beat movement is clearly upheld in these poems. His instinct for integrated lyrical statement, his special contribution to Beat poetry, is as strong as ever; his sense of humor and sexuality have not diminished. But he has added a wider-ranging moral urgency and a new depth of humane solicitude that hold even his strangest visions close to the heart of contemporary feeling.
Author : Gregory Corso
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811208192
Corso, Herald of Autoc. Spirit. Poetry heralding "the ivory applecart of tyrannical values"
Author : Gregory Corso
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811200271
Author : Gregory Corso
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811215350
He left (or was left by) a number of girlfriends and he fathered five children along the way. He was apt to raise a bit of a ruckus at poetry readings and other public events. No one could be sure what he might do next except that he would write poetry and get published and that it would be widely read.".
Author : Gregory Corso
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780938410966
Gregory Corso's an aphoristic poet, and a poet of ideas. What modern poets write with such terse calrity that their verses stick in the mind without effort? Certainly Yeats, Pound, Williams, Eliot, Kerouac, Creeley, Dylan, & Corso have that quality. --from the Preface titled "On Corso's Virutes," by Alan Ginsberg
Author : Nikki Giovanni
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0060099534
A resonant, powerful collection from one of America’s preeminent poets. In Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Nikki Giovanni turns her pen to nature and the environment, the might and grace of women, her battle with cancer, the relationships between mothers and daughters, the state of the nation, and more.
Author : Diane di Prima
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0140231587
In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when this was unheard of. Vividly chronicling the intense, creative cauldron of those years, she recounts her revolutionary relationships and sexuality, and how her experimentation led her to define herself as a woman. What emerges is a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumph of the imagination, and how one woman discovered her role in the world.
Author : Michael Skau
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780809322527
"Skau covers the complete works of Corso, one of the four major Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs) who attempted to provide an alternative to what they saw as the academic forms of literature dominating American writing through the 1940s and 1950s."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : William T. Lawlor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2005-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1851094059
The coverage of this book ranges from Jack Kerouac's tales of freedom-seeking Bohemian youth to the frenetic paintings of Jackson Pollock, including 60 years of the Beat Generation and the artists of the Age of Spontaneity. Beat Culture captures in a single volume six decades of cultural and countercultural expression in the arts and society. It goes beyond other works, which are often limited to Beat writers like William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and Michael McClure, to cover a wide range of musicians, painters, dramatists, filmmakers, and dancers who found expression in the Bohemian movement known as the Beat Generation. Top scholars from the United States, England, Holland, Italy, and China analyze a vast array of topics including sexism, misogny, alcoholism, and drug abuse within Beat circles; the arrest of poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti on obscenity charges; Beat dress and speech; and the Beat "pad." Through more than 250 entries, which travel from New York to New Orleans, from San Francisco to Mexico City, students, scholars, and those interested in popular culture will taste the era's rampant freedom and experimentation, explore the impact of jazz on Beat writings, and discover how Beat behavior signaled events such as the sexual revolution, the peace movement, and environmental awareness.