Yes, those are great poems with a mysterious energy. Sadly, Corso's
greatest defender now (that I know of) is Kirby Olson who appears regularly
on Silliman's blog with rants associating any poet with politics a bit to
the left with Mao and is a proponent of "Lutheran Surrealism." I think he
places Corso with Aquinas.
On 11/1/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Greogory Corso is along with Bob Kaufmann the most unjustly neglected
> of the beat poets, though Allen Ginsberg called him the greatest poet
> of his time. I heard him read once and I still have somewhere a book
> he autographed for me, though I doubt it's worth much as a
> collectible, especially since it isn't in mint condition.
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> "I held a Shelley manuscript" reminds me of the feeling I got once at
> an antiquarian book fair when I held a copy of T. S. Eliot's Selected
> Poems with Dylan Thomas's signature on the fly leaf. I wish I could
> have bought it, but it cost about three times my then annual income.
> I bet it would have been a good investment though.
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