Gregory Corso & Marianne Faithfull ~ No Arrangement Was Made
(from "Die on Me - Shimmy Disc, 2025)
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...recorded a few days before Corso's death, in January 2001

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Allen Ginsberg & Gregory Corso, Tangier, 1961.
(©Allen Ginsberg Estate)
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“I hate poetry and all its fucking ambitious son-of-a-bitches who call me a showman because I act myself”.
- Gregory Corso letter to Lawrence Ferlingetti, September 6th 1957.

American poet Gregory Corso, born on this day.
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Gregory Corso, 1930–2001, by Patti Smith
(The Village Voice, Jan.23, 2001)
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"There was no doubt Gregory was a poet. Poetry was his ideology, and the poets his saints. He was called upon and he knew it."

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Gregory Corso ~ Bomb
#GregoryCorso #BOTD #BeatGeneration Spoken word excerpt of the Gregory Corso's poem 'BOMB', brilliantly animated by Shannon Larratt of Zentastic.com

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Gregory Nunzio Corso, poet, juvenile delinquent, dandy, radio thief, sullen and broody scribbler in bars. The man Allen Ginsburg dubbed "A Beat Christ-boy", born today in NYC in 1930.

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Pull My Daisy - 1959
[Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso]

A short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, it was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation.

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The great Beat poet Gregory Corso, Paris, 1957
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When the Messenger-Spirit
comes to your door
though locked
It'll enter like an electric midwife
and deliver the message

There is no tell
throughout the ages
that a Messenger-Spirit
ever stumbled into darkness

“I think of New York City lost in stars/ forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love/ Tonight the night is full...” - #GregoryCorso (born: 26 March 1930)

Gregory Corso, poet, juvenile delinquent, dandy, radio thief, sullen and broody scribbler in bars. The man Allen Ginsburg dubbed "A Beat Christ-boy".
#GregoryCorso #BOTD

"I learned life were no dream
I learned truth deceived
Man is not God
Life is a century
Death an instant"

William Burroughs, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg at the Beat Hotel, Le Vieux Paris.

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Beaten at Her Own Game When a Famous Group of Poets Set an Art Maven Straight

Can we fault a Beat poet for seeing Peggy Guggenheim as less desirable than her daughter? Guggenheim certainly did and Corso became persona non grata in #Venice and beyond. #peggyguggenheim #gregorycorso #history #culture #themodernsalonniere #beatpoetry #poetry

“I think of New York City lost in stars/ forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love/ Tonight the night is full.” - #GregoryCorso (died: 17 January 2001)

Died #otd Gregory Corso (1930-2001), American poet, 25 years ago today #GregoryCorso life story...

Boulder ’81 — four cats in the grass, Orlovsky always with papers in hand, Ginsberg part Buddha, dressed like a diplomat of dreams, Burroughs crumpled hat & wandering eyes, Corso unpretentious in linen, smirking like he knows how it all ends. They stood still just long enough for me to burn the frame.

Orlovsky, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso—legends of the Beat Generation, posing for me outside Naropa. Boulder, Colorado, 1981

See Alt for a "beat" caption
© James Cook
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I'm over the moon to see my book "Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet" in the library at the University of Manchester. #gregorycorso #thebeatgeneration #thebeats #poetry #literature

standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power
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Incantati a guardare una vecchia puntata di Blitz di #GianniMinà su #Rai5
Con ospiti #FabrizioDeAndrè #MauroPagani e #GregoryCorso
Quando penso a cosa staranno trasmettendo ora le tv, pubblica e privata, mi vengono i conati di vomito.

Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet is back 6/20/25 with a brand-new look featuring Christopher Felver’s iconic photography. Same essential Beat voices inside. Preorder now at Magical Jeep:
👉 magicaljeep.com
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FOR MILES Your sound is faultless pure & round holy almost profound Your sound is your sound true & from within a confession soulful & lovely Poet whose sound is played lost or recorded but heard can you recall that 54 night at the Open Door when you & bird wailed five in the morning some wondrous yet unimaginable score?

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“I think of New York City lost in stars/ forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love/ Tonight the night is full;” - #GregoryCorso (born: 26 March 1930)

“I think of New York City lost in stars/ forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love/ Tonight the night is full;” - #GregoryCorso (died: 17 January 2001)

Fans of Gregory Corso, and of the Beat generation of poets, really must check out this amazing book from Roadside Press! The editors did a fantastic job.

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“I think of New York City lost in stars/ forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love/ Tonight the night is full;” - #GregoryCorso (born: 26 March 1930)

Poetry by Eliot Katz “Gregory’s Last Lines” about Gregory Corso Gregory’s Last Lines ( previously published in Eliot’s book Love, War, Fire Wind) He was a poet of silk and the shredding of silk. No earthling nor deity remained immune from his probin…

Poetry from Eliot Katz about #gregorycorso #poetry #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #beatpoetry feversofthemind.com/2024/02/08/p...

“I think of New York City lost in stars/ forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love/ Tonight the night is full;” - #GregoryCorso (died: 17 January 2001)