A report on Beat Generation and Gregory Corso

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A section devoted to the beat generation at a bookstore in Stockholm, Sweden
Corso's grave, in Rome (Italy)

He was the youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs).

- Gregory Corso

Mr. and Mrs. Jones were associated with a number of Beats (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso).

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Allen Ginsberg

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American poet and writer.

American poet and writer.

First edition cover of Ginsberg's landmark poetry collection, Howl and Other Poems(1956)
Ginsberg with his partner, poet Peter Orlovsky. Photo taken in 1978
Portrait with Bob Dylan, taken in 1975
Allen Ginsberg greeting A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada at San Francisco International Airport. January 17, 1967
The Mantra-Rock Dance promotional poster featuring Allen Ginsberg along with leading rock bands.
Allen Ginsberg, 1979
Protesting at the 1972 Republican National Convention
Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and John C. Lilly in 1991

As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.

Also, in New York, Ginsberg met Gregory Corso in the Pony Stable Bar.

Jack Kerouac by Tom Palumbo circa 1956

Jack Kerouac

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Jack Kerouac by Tom Palumbo circa 1956
Jack Kerouac's birthplace, 9 Lupine Road, 2nd floor, West Centralville, Lowell, Massachusetts
His third of several homes growing up in the West Centralville section of Lowell
Kerouac's Naval Reserve Enlistment photograph, 1943
Jack Kerouac lived with his parents for a time above a corner drug store in Ozone Park (now a flower shop), while writing some of his earliest work.
454 West 20th Street
House in College Park in Orlando, Florida where Kerouac lived and wrote The Dharma Bums
Grave in Edson Cemetery, Lowell
On the Road excerpt in the center of Jack Kerouac Alley
Jack Kerouac Alley in Chinatown, San Francisco

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

His friendship with Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso, among others, became a notorious representation of the Beat Generation.

Burroughs in the 1980s

William S. Burroughs

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Burroughs in the 1980s
William S. Burroughs' childhood home on Pershing Place in St. Louis
William S. Burroughs and James Grauerholz in the alley behind the Jazzhaus in Lawrence, Kansas (1996)
Burroughs and David Woodard with Brion Gysin Dreamachine, 1997

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature.

This shabby, inexpensive hotel was populated by Gregory Corso, Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky for several months after Naked Lunch first appeared.

Snyder in 2007

Gary Snyder

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American man of letters.

American man of letters.

Snyder in 2007

In the 1950s, Snyder took part in the rise of a strand of Buddhist anarchism emerging from the Beat movement.

Snyder has also commented "The term Beat is better used for a smaller group of writers ... the immediate group around Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, plus Gregory Corso and a few others. Many of us ... belong together in the category of the San Francisco Renaissance. ... Still, beat can also be defined as a particular state of mind ... and I was in that mind for a while".

Diane di Prima, photo by Gloria Graham during the video taping of Add-Verse, 2004

Diane di Prima

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Diane di Prima, photo by Gloria Graham during the video taping of Add-Verse, 2004

Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement.

From 1974 to 1997, di Prima taught poetry at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, sharing the program with fellow Beats Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman (co-founders of the program), William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and others.

Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books

City Lights Pocket Poets Series

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Series of poetry collections published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books of San Francisco since August 1955.

Series of poetry collections published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books of San Francisco since August 1955.

Howl and Other Poems was published in the fall of 1956 as number four in the Pocket Poets Series from City Lights Books

Many of the poets were members of the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance, but the volumes included a diverse array of poets, including authors translated from Spanish, German, Russian, and Dutch.

8) Gregory Corso, Gasoline, 1958 (reissued with The Vestal Lady on Brattle, 1978)

Protestant Cemetery, Rome

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Private cemetery in the rione of Testaccio in Rome.

Private cemetery in the rione of Testaccio in Rome.

Tombstone of John Keats
Tombstone of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Grave of Gregory Corso
Grave of Antonio Gramsci
Grave of Hans von Marées
Story's Angel of Grief

Gregory Corso (1930–2001), American beat generation poet

Corso: The Last Beat

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Corso: The Last Beat is a 2009 documentary film, with on-screen narration by Ethan Hawke and appearances by Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso.

The Beat Generation’s Gregory Corso became one of four in the inner circle of the Beats, along with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs.