Gregory Corso notebooks, 1990-1992.

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Gregory Corso notebooks, 1990-1992.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43795742

Two manuscript notebooks and a group of six 10.5 x 10.5 pieces of paper stapled together. The notebooks contain draft typescripts of verse by Corso; one notebook also contains caricatures of Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Peter Orlovsky.

2 v. ; 14 cm.

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7534335

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Corso, Gregory

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American writer, primarily of poetry, Corso was born in New York City in 1930. He worked as a migrant laborer, newspaper reporter for the L.A. Examiner, and merchant seaman before joining the English Department at SUNY Buffalo in 1965. In the mid-1950s he began to give public readings of his poetry, often sharing the stage with other Beat poets. His 1958 volume, GASOLINE, marks the beginning of his long association with San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore and the Bay Area in general, which fig...