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....
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Tag: Gregory Corso
Elvis Presley and the Beat Generation
There are various superficial connections between Elvis Presley and the writers of the Beat...
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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....
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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...
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Corso Preferred America
Scholar Glenn Sheldon puts Beat poet Gregory Corso on trial in his book, South of Our Selves:...
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Daddy’s Girl
Gregory Corso loved Jack Kerouac and Jack loved Joan Haverty, his second wife, loved her at least...
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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...
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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...
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The Beats in Greece
As the birthplace of Western democracy, literature, and philosophy, it is hardly surprising that...
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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...
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Review: The Best Minds of My Generation
There are so many books about the Beat Generation that focus on the writers’ roles as rebels and...
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Sarpedon: A Play by Gregory Corso
Prior to the publication of his first collection of poetry, The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other...
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