A report on Gregory Corso
American poet and a key member of the Beat movement.
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Allen Ginsberg
8 linksAmerican poet and writer.
American poet and writer.
Also, in New York, Ginsberg met Gregory Corso in the Pony Stable Bar.
Beat Generation
8 linksLiterary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
Literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones were associated with a number of Beats (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso).
William S. Burroughs
6 linksAmerican writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature.
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.
Jack Kerouac
4 linksAmerican novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
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.
Beat Hotel
5 linksSmall, run-down hotel of 42 rooms at 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur in the Latin Quarter of Paris, notable chiefly as a residence for members of the Beat poetry movement of the mid-20th century.
Small, run-down hotel of 42 rooms at 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur in the Latin Quarter of Paris, notable chiefly as a residence for members of the Beat poetry movement of the mid-20th century.
It never had any proper name – "the Beat Hotel" was a nickname given it by Gregory Corso, which stuck.
Harold Chapman
4 linksPhotographer noted for chronicling the 1950s in Paris.
Photographer noted for chronicling the 1950s in Paris.
There he chronicled in detail the life and times of his fellow residents – among them Allen Ginsberg and his lover Peter Orlovsky, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Sinclair Beiles, Brion Gysin, Harold Norse, and other great names of Beat Generation poetry and art.
Gary Snyder
3 linksAmerican man of letters.
American man of letters.
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".
Clinton Correctional Facility
0 linksNew York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision maximum security state prison for men located in the Village of Dannemora, New York.
New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision maximum security state prison for men located in the Village of Dannemora, New York.
Gregory Corso: Italian-American poet, one of the inner circle of "The Beat Generation" along with Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs. Sentenced at 17, Corso served about three years for stealing a suit.
New Directions Publishing
0 linksIndependent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin and incorporated in 1964.
Independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin and incorporated in 1964.
Gregory Corso
Rue Gît-le-Cœur
2 linksStreet in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Street in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France.
From 1957 to 1963 several poets and artists of the Beat Generation stayed in a rundown pension at No.9 which they nicknamed the Beat Hotel, including Sinclair Beiles, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Harold Norse, Peter Orlovsky, Derek Raymond, and Ian Sommerville.