Gregory Corso
Who is Gregory Corso
Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet and a key member of the Beat movement. He was the youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs).
Early life
Born Nunzio Corso at New York City's St. Vincent's Hospital, Corso later selected the name "Gregory" as a confirmation name. Within Little Italy and its community he was "Nunzio," while he dealt with others as "Gregory." He often would use "Nunzio" as short for "Annunziato," the announcing angel Gabriel, hence a poet. Corso identified with not only Gabriel but also Hermes, the divine messenger.Corso's mother, Michelina Corso (born Colonna), was born in Miglianico, Abruzzo, Italy, and immigrated to the United S...
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Gregory Corso Poems
- The American Way
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I am a great American
I am almost nationalistic about it!
I love America like a madness!
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- Birthplace Revisited
I stand in the dark light in the dark
street
and look up at my window, I was
born there.
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- Humanity
What simple profundities
What profound simplicities
To sit down among the trees
and breathe with them
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- To A Downfallen Rose
When I laid aside the verses of Mimnermus,
I lived a life of canned heat and raw hands,
alone, not far from my body did I wander,
walked with a hope of a sudden dreamy forest of gold.
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- Last Night I Drove A Car
Last night I drove a car
not knowing how to drive
not owning a car
I drove and knocked down
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- Threeroomspress: happy birthday to the deep spirit of gregory corso
- Themoonlookson: from 'bomb, by gregory corso
“all man hates you...”
- Dean_frey: gregory corso by burt glinn, 1959
"sometimes hell is a good place - if it proves to one that because it exists, so must its opposite, heaven, exist. and what was heaven? poetry."
- Rayboomhower: “it is a great feeling to know
that from a window
i can go to books to cans of beer to past loves.
and from these gather enough dream
to sneak out a back door.”
gregory corso, born on this day in 1930
- Cowboycoleridge: should i get married? should i be good?
astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustus hood?
don’t take her to movies but to cemeteries
tell all about werewolf bathtubs and forked clarinets
then desire her and kiss her and all the preliminaries
- gregory corso
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