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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

cowboycoleridge: Spirit is Life It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea Gregory Corso

cowboycoleridge: I learned life were no dream / learned truth deceived / Man is not God / Life is a century / Death an instant. Gregory Corso

SabrinaMoro9: Gregory Corso, ( 26 March 1930 - 17 January 2001 ), Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, 1957.

blackbart6996: Bomb   you are as cruel as man makes you   and you're no crueller than cancer  All Man hates you   they'd rather die by car-crash   lightning   drowning Gregory Corso

ADASpota: The Beat Hotel Frequented by the beats and named by Gregory Corso, writer and tenant Verta Kali Smart wrote a cover story about it for an ex-pat magazine called “Left Bank This Month”. It was likely the first time the hotel’s nickname was published in print, making it official.

ldbahnan: 'They not only speak and walk and think alike they have the same facel What did this monstrous thing? What regiments a people so?' Just been reading 'The American Way' - Gregory Corso, writing in 1960

McNewbie1: “Last Night I Drove a Car” by Beat poet, Gregory Corso.”I believe this was written shortly after he was released from prison.

JahDuran: Gregory Corso and Harry Smith about to drop this year's must hear psych LP on Rocket Records. Shot taken after they realise the Sunday night second stage headline slot at Raw Power is in the bag.

spacedancr: Gregory Corso on the genius of Jack Kerouac, and the difference between writers of prose, poetry, and song. “He was a very intelligent baby, very smart, genius easy for him, but divine I don’t know…”

poemakontsa: Good morning with poets and cats! Gregory Corso

poemakontsa: I think this is Ginsberg's apartment and that's Ginsberg's cat, by the way. There is a famous photo of Gregory Corso at the windowsill of Ginsberg's apartment at the East Village. This, I think, belongs to that series.

michaelerich5: Harry Chapman: Gregory Corso in Room 41, the Beat Hotel.  Here, He Wrote the Poem 'Bomb,' Which was Originally Printed in the Form of a Mushroom Cloud,. Paris     c.1956

Parziival_: The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell , a hell of heaven . It is up to us to choose what we focus on , what we allow our minds to create . We have the power to shape our own reality , for better or for worse . ~ Gregory Corso

ADASpota: Pull My Daisy - 1959 [Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso] A short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, it was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation

AmyJoin26217736: Book The Golden Dot PDF Download - Gregory Corso, Raymond Foye, George Scrivani, Gregory Corso, Raymond Foye, George Scrivani ➡

Wisdomet6618: Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.,Gregory Corso,power, slacker, slackers, slacking, standing, waiting,

Kuahmel: "The heavens speak through our lips" --Gregory Corso

vesmark_sliven: Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Jack Kerouac, David Amram and Allen Ginsberg in New York City, late 1950s by John Cohen.

DavidCorvine: William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso.

RodrigoToth5: Book The Golden Dot PDF Download - Gregory Corso, Raymond Foye, George Scrivani, Gregory Corso, Raymond Foye, George Scrivani ➡

DichterFreude: War is peace Bomb - Poem by Gregory Corso

simon_warner: A new series at Rock and the Beat Generation in which individuals recall a personal encounter with a member of the Beat circle. In the first such article a long-time Ginsberg collaborator remembers poet Gregory Corso

jlorts: But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats? --Gregory Corso (1930-2001)

egtrejos: 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 - Marriage. Gregory Corso (1930-2001)

DavidCorvine: William S. Burroughs, Ian Sommerville and (I think) Gregory Corso, Tangier, Morocco.

wrdfngrs: Especially when they can’t do shit To the movies — to the movies that’s where I hurry to when I feel I’m going to die So far it’s worked.” Gregory Corso

JimBarrett: In 1973 Salem State College held a symposium on Jack Kerouac where beat writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky discussed Kerouac’s writing and different aspects of his life. The three videos here show over 4 hours of the proceedings.

MarkABraley4: Gregory Corso said that Kerouac & Ginsberg we're merely Manichean as Buddhist wannabes. Their understandings we're alphabetic tabulae versa lingua Whereas a lifetime's lessons in the soma, softening Eskimo children's mukluks...

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quizbot6: Henry Atkins of McGill buzzed in on a tossup on Corso, Gregory, pretended they were guessing, but answered correctly for 15 points.

trufimongy: Jack Kerouac and Gregory Corso, NYC (1957) “I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” ― Jack Kerouac

vanishingsigns: This week’s newsletter looks at Gregory Corso’s calligram for the hydrogen bomb; some militarist avant-gardes; representations of the Atomic Sublime; and more! Read and subscribe:

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jeffreysbrooks: Perspective: As big as the universe, as small as your choices. (Poem by Gregory Corso)

MockClay: ... I remember my 31st year when I cried: “To think I may have to go another 31 years!” ... I love poetry because it makes me love and presents me life. from Gregory Corso's Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday. 30 down hopefully at least 31 more to go

forLF2DO: Sonic Youth - Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso) (iTunes Session) (Album: iTunes Soho Session)

JeffreyStClair3: "The Animal Loves You Wear It In Your Eye" Any idea what that refers to, Fritz? Sounds like it could be the first line of a Gregory Corso poem...

alex_akanell: "these poems all bear the same theme, yet each page is a separate poem, and yet again each joins up to make a whole poem and the poems can be shuffled up and be read as chance would have it no one poem comes first or last" A shuffle poem by Gregory Corso

SteveTromans: Gregory Corso, Steve Lacy, Brion Gysin

MacCocktail: "Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power." ― Gregory Corso (died this day, January 17, 2001)

Sleepy_Chaotic: Day 14: Here's an ace Gregory Corso poem instead...

Kajukatli89: "I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright."- Gregory Corso BB16 HEARTBEAT ARCHANA

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AuthorLachlan: Review: 'Gasoline' by Gregory Corso

AuthorLachlan: What is Lachlan reading? 'Gasoline' by Gregory Corso

ByLeavesWeLive: Last night I drove a car not knowing how to drive not owning a car I drove and knocked down people I loved ...went 120 through one town. I stopped at Hedgeville and slept in the back seat ...excited about my new life. Gregory Corso

audiac: Gregory Corso Super 8 Home Movie 1978 by Raymond Foye

Bibliophilelll: Spirit is Life It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea Gregory Corso

jonnyboywatson1: Gregory Corso ❤️

LaborSouth: The Collective West's macabre dance of death in Ukraine, what Beat poet Gregory Corso would call a "laughable preview" of the "corpse the universe" that awaits.

AuthorLachlan: Just got a copy of Gregory Corso's 'Gasoline' (City Lights pocket edition) in the mail. Very excited to read!

NormalsBooks: shorties that Gregory Corso would pilfer for him. As Revolver distro says “psych twee freakbeat….where they explode with a sound that’s pulling from ‘60s jangly guitars, kiwi poppers & paisley underground revivalists”.

xtinastrong: Poetry by Joanne Kyger, David Antin, Gregory Corso, and maybe some holiday music by 7 Seconds, The Specials, Avail, T-Rex, John Coltrane, and much, much more. Lo-Fi Revolution (you can dance to) Wed 5-7 pm, ReB Sun 11pm-1am Royalton Community Radio

d_troaditis: Gregory Corso, Hering

Tara23366587: "I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright."- Gregory Corso BB SENSATION PRIYANKA

iamzomp: Last night I drove a car not knowing how to drive not owning a car I drove and knocked down people I loved ...went 120 through one town. stopped at Hedgeville and slept in the back seat ...excited about my new life. -Gregory Corso

venepoetics: Gregory Corso (2022)

ProverbialSoups: “Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.” ― Gregory Corso

MelanieJaxn: "O how terrible it must be for a young man-- seated before a family and the family thinking We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou! After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living?" ~ Gregory Corso

scottedelman: Does anyone know whether Ray Nelson ever wrote about the four years he lived in Paris during the '50s, during which he met Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and others? If there's a memoir out there, I'd love to read it.

venepoetics: “The cloaked Poe lived by night crossed a bridge and looked at his face gigantically down in the sea below— His day lacked electricity yet he held an agate lamp in hand. Poets should live as phantoms, reclusive like Emily D.” (Gregory Corso)

YouAreTheExpert: from Marriage by Gregory Corso: for Jim DeSalvo wherever he might be who is probably reciting the entire poem in some bar to anyone drunk enough to listen as I listened as we all listened so many centuries ago

BRATdaSIMP: Gregory Corso once said, “standing on the street corner waiting for no one, is power.”

VerlaineJohn: Burt Glinn Gregory Corso, East Village apartment, New York City 1959

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JimBarrett: This collection contains approx. 43 items published in the 1970s, including books by Paul Bowles, Ira Cohen, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Jane Falk, Charles Henri Ford, Iris Gaynor, Angus MacLise, and Roberto Francisco Valenza with known scene artists.

vanzauber: cosmos entire enwrapped by the void like a wheel covered tire - gregory corso

beatnpress: , with echoes of the poems of Charles Bukowski and the ‘street urchin Shelley’ Beat generation poet, Gregory Corso. The words gust off the page in a free verse style like a jazz drummer, giving the verse a soulful heartbeat that swings in any direction." Matteo Sedazzari

jacket2mag: New at J2: William Lessard in conversation with Gregory Corso editors Raymond Foye and George Scrivani

vecchio721: Gasoline by Gregory Corso Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Howl by Allen Ginsberg Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

NeonSkies7: Gregory Corso - Bomb

lanctte: my art history prof met gregory corso omg

DavidCranmerUn1: Cranbrook and Lawrenceville. In postwar Paris, Buchwald met many American expatriate writers, going about with Janet Flanner, E.B. White, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Thornton Wilder. He also had brief encounters with the artist Pablo Picasso, writer Ernest Hemingway,

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cri_mousse: "O but what about love? I forget love / not that I am incapable of love / it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes". Gregory Corso, Marriage

gattofritto: “[Gregory Corso] tells me to remember: poetry is the opposite of hypocrisy. [...] Hypocrisy’s not the problem, I think, it’s allegory the breeding ground of paranoia. The act of reading into—how does one know when to stop?” Dodie Bellamy, The Letters of Mina Harker, 1998.

Beat562: tangiers afterworld poetry give me a Gregory Corso afterworld so I can beauty eternally with Shelley eyes and Coleridge smart beat and hope and charity beauty and the beat the beat and the beauty and the beat and the beat goes on but in pages dead black and white stripe T-shirt

Spill_Words: 1959 written by: Gregory Corso Uncomprising year—I see no meaning to life. Though this abled self is here nonetheless, either in trade gold or grammaticness, I drop the wheelwright’s simple principle— Why

rfdzw: Gregory Corso at an One World Poetry festival, Amsterdam, early 1980s. Photo by Eddie Woods

meganthedawdler: "Marriage" by Gregory Corso. I listen to this once a year.

calypso_mind: Gregory Corso at the Seven Arts Coffee Gallery, New York City, 1959

shelleyscholar: Shelleyan 50 Gregory Corso (1930–2001). The Beat poet's ashes rest beneath Shelley's in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome. Shelley was one of Corso's Revolutionary Spirits. 'I Held a Shelley Manuscript', one of the lesser poems by a Shelleyan, is doubtlessly sincere & oddly moving.

Matthew95067823: "That I am manifold a man pursuing the big lies of gold or a poet roaming in bright ashes or that which I imagine myself to be a shark-toothed sleep a man-eater of dreams I need not then be all-smart about bombs" "Bomb" Gregory Corso

sim0_om: i think a lot about the advice some mafia guy gave gregory corso while he was in prison

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MelanieJaxn: I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. -Gregory Corso

alexmercant: Spirit is Life It flows thru the death of me endlessly like a river unafraid of becoming the sea - Gregory Corso

austinfilm: A series of misfortunes leave Lisa homeless among the outcasts (Richard Hell, Gregory Corso) of a pre-gentrified East Village in this “hidden masterwork" starring, written, and directed by Rachel Amodeo. WHAT ABOUT ME screens Oct. 14 & 15 at AFS Cinema.

johnrpenley: Gregory Corso, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg at Bea… | Flickr

MaximDShrayer: Today in class I introduced Gogol’s/Hogol’s “Marriage” by playing recordings of Gregory Corso performing “The Marriage” and Philip Larkin reading “This Be the Verse.”

joseph_gaglione: POET GREGORY CORSO , Seven Arts Coffee Gallery. 7 Arts Coffee Gallery, New York City Photo: Burt Glinn,

simon_warner: Singer Marianne Faithfull, who worked at Ginsberg’s Naropa and recorded with Gregory Corso, releases a new career overview named in honour of Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience.

robertsnickc: “I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.” ~ Gregory Corso, 1930-2001 [Self-Portrait by Gregory Corso]



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