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An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters
by
Gregory Corso
,
Bill Morgan
,
Patti Smith
Fabulous letters from the vagabond Beat poet to his friends -- among them Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. For all his charm and intelligence poet Gregory Corso lived a vagabond life. He never held down a regular job. He rarely stayed very long under the same roof. He spent long stretches -- some as long as four or five years -- abroad. Many of his letters came fr
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Paperback
,
444 pages
Published
April 17th 2003
by New Directions
(first published April 2003)
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Hey, you know this is a hidden masterpiece. Corso in all his mad glory, but with a pure heart despite his junkie's tendency to burn everyone and everything. Just his luck: almost no one seems to have heard of it. A treasure of literary and personal soul history.
An accidental autobiobiography put together by means of letters from Corso to his peers, his publishers, amd his firends. What a sad life life Corso lived in his early years. From foster family to care home, from youth prisons to reform schools. His mother left him as a child, his father remarried the typical Dickens type woman who could not cope with Corso's bed-wetting and petty stealing. Corso was a true poet, educated in prison and on the streets, educated by Gingsberg and Burroughs he produ
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Most of the letters are from 56-61. Nothing surprising in a way, but he's burning birghtly. Does anyone write letters like these anymore? The last generation of talkers and letter writers before the gradual dilution of mass media?
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Gregory Nunzio Corso was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs).
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