Who is Gregory Corso

Gregory CorsoBornGregory Nunzio Corso
(1930-03-26)March 26, 1930
New York City, New YorkDiedJanuary 17, 2001(2001-01-17) (aged 70)
Minnesota, U.S.OccupationPoet, writerLiterary movementBeat, postmodernism Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an Ameri...
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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! ...
• Birthplace Revisited
  I stand in the dark light in the dark
  street
  and look up at my window, I was
  born there. ...
• Humanity
  What simple profundities
  What profound simplicities
  To sit down among the trees
  and breathe with them ...
• 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. ...
• 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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Top 10 most used topics by Gregory Corso

Life 11 God 10 I Love You 9 Love 9 Sad 9 Death 9 Time 9 Never 8 Night 8 World 7

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Comments about Gregory Corso

• Feli_unomascero: "spirit is life. it flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea." ~ gregory corso
• Fervordelsur: i lost my god in the madness of my cellar. (gregory corso)
• Capponicolleen: 'in the drama of life as it has been experienced and recorded, or simply imagined, impossibility has had a possible role.' -gregory corso
• Angelo_cennamo: gregory corso
• Forlf2do: sonic youth - leaky lifeboat (for gregory corso) (album: the eternal)

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