Thirteen interviews with Beat Generation poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001) that span the most productive years of his career: from 1955, when his first collection of poems was published, to 1982, the year following the publication of his last book of all new poetry. Foreword by Dick Brukenfeld, publisher of Corsos The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems (1955), that recounts the poets early days in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as a "stowaway" on the Harvard University campus.
Thirteen interviews with Beat Generation poet Gregory Corso (1930-2001) that span the most productive years of his career: from 1955, when his first c...
Prior to the publication of his first collection of poetry, The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems (1955), Beat poet Gregory Corso wrote three plays while living as a "stowaway" on the campus of Harvard University.
The first of these plays, written in 1954, was Sarpedon, which Corso described as "a great funny Prometheus Unbound ... all in metre and rhyme" and ..".an attempt to replicate Euripides, though the whole shot be an original. Like the great Greek masters, I took off where Homer left an opening (like Euripides did with the fate of...
Prior to the publication of his first collection of poetry, The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems (1955), Beat poet Gregory Corso wr...
