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.
"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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Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
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