Overview
Gregory Corso is still kicking āthe ivory applecart of tyrannical values,ā heralding the wild and keenly experienced life. Since the 1950s, when with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others, Corso electrified the literary establishment with what he describes as āspontaneous subterranean poesy of the streets,ā he has fathered āthree fleshed angels,ā traveled through Europe and Egypt, seen the demise of several fellow āDaddies of an Age,ā and now finds himself over half a century old.
The lush, fervent oratory of Shelley is evident in these poems of one who may be his most ardent American heir, and the author ofĀ The Happy Birthday of DeathĀ andĀ Elegiac Feelings AmericanĀ never entirely forgets that a āleaky lifeboatā is the mortalās only home. āYouād think there would be chaos/the futility of it all/Yet children are born/oft times spitting images of us/ ā¦ and the gift keeps on coming.ā
Corso knows death, despair, and silence only too well, and his first major collection in eleven years is permeated with a sense of crucial choices to be made. āColumbia U Poesy Readingāā1975ā begins with Beat history and ends with a solitary vision of God in the form of the muse: āSeated on a cold park bench/I heard her moan: āO Gregorio Gregorio/youāll fail me, I know/Walking away/a little old lady behind me was singing: True! True!ā/āNot so!ā/ rang the spirit, āNot so!āā In a cocky, exuberant blend of high style and down-home New Yorkese, theĀ Herald of the Autochthonic SpiritĀ brings more auspicious tidings.
This book title, Herald Of The Autochthonic Spirit, ISBN: 9780811208086, by Gregory Corso, published by New Directions (October 17, 1981) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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