Gregory Corso

Beat Books Published in 2023

We’re over halfway through the year, so it’s a bit late for this, but here we go nonetheless. Better late…

2 years ago

Elvis Presley and the Beat Generation

There are various superficial connections between Elvis Presley and the writers of the Beat Generation. Although he was much younger…

2 years ago

On the Spot with the Golden Dot: The Spiritus of Gregory Corso

He was a hipster darling to reference on college campuses in the late 50s of the last century. Then again,…

3 years ago

Review: The Golden Dot, by Gregory Corso

The only problem I have had with Gregory Corso’s poems is that there aren't enough of them. Now, there are more.…

3 years ago

Corso Preferred America

Scholar Glenn Sheldon puts Beat poet Gregory Corso on trial in his book, South of Our Selves: Mexico in the…

4 years ago

Daddy’s Girl

Gregory Corso loved Jack Kerouac and Jack loved Joan Haverty, his second wife, loved her at least for a month…

6 years ago

Reflections on Jack Kerouac’s Favorite Line in Shakespeare

While his student at Naropa Institute in 1977, I heard the poet Gregory Corso  drunkenly inform the entire class that…

6 years ago

The Beat Generation and Mental Hospitals

The 1940s and 50s were difficult years to be non-conformist, and that was doubly true if you were a woman.…

8 years ago

The Beats in Greece

As the birthplace of Western democracy, literature, and philosophy, it is hardly surprising that Greece was of such interest to…

8 years ago

I’m Watching You Watching Me: The Inversion of the Gaze in Ginsberg’s Photographs

“You never look at me from the place from which I see you.” – Jacques Lacan Introduction: The Photographs, The…

9 years ago

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