Corso ∗long Live∗ Man (paper Only) - Softcover

Corso, Gregory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811200256 ISBN 13: 9780811200257

Publisher: New Directions, 1962

Synopsis

Corso, Long Live Man. Poetry that jubilates over being a "(hu-)man, Alive, here in the moment".

About this title

About the Author

Gregory Corso (1930-2001) was abandoned by his mother a month after his birth at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York. Growing up in foster care and on the streets of Little Italy, Corso was a juvenile delinquent who spent time in Clinton Correctional Facility, in the cell recently vacated by gangster "Lucky" Luciano. An aspiring poet, Corso was taken under the wing of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and became the youngest member of the Beat Generation's inner circle, with whom he lived and work in the Beat Hotel, a lodging house in Paris, during the late fifties. There he created one of his signature works, "Bomb", a poem composed of typewritten strips of paper arranged in the shape of a mushroom cloud. Late in life, Corso became reunited with his mother and maintained a close relationship with her until his death.

From the Back Cover

Long live Man! sings the poet Gregory Corso - despite atom bombs and computers, cold wars that get hot and togetherness that isn't, too many cars and too little love...and in these poems he celebrates the wonders (and the laughs and griefs) of being a man alive.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1962
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811200256
• ISBN 13: 9780811200257
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 100