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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- Eccegordo: sea chanty by gregory corso
- Thebeathandbook: remembering beat poet, gregory corso.
- Ginsbergpoem: twenty years ago on this day - the passing of a legend - gregory corso - plenty of corso on the allen ginsberg project. here's a reading he gave at naropa in 1975 with the equally legendary william burroughs -
- Maccocktail: "i learned life were no dream i learned truth deceived man is not god life is a century death an instant" ― gregory corso (died this day, january 17, 2001)'
- Maccocktail: "standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power." ― gregory corso (died this day, january 17, 2001)
