Mindfield New and Selected Poems |
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Author:
| Corso, Gregory |
Introduction by:
| Amram, David |
Foreword by:
| Burroughs, William S. Ginsberg, Allen |
ISBN: | 978-0-938410-90-4 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1991 |
Publisher: | Avalon Publishing
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Imprint: | Westview Press |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $300.00 |
Book Description:
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Gregory Corso's an aphoristic poet, and a poet of ideas. What modern poets write with such terse clarity that their verses stick in the mind without effort? Certainly Yeats, Pound, Williams, Elliot, Kerouac, Creeley, Dylan & Corso have that quality. Corso's handling of ideas is unique, as in various one-word title poems...--Excerpted from the Foreward by Alan Ginsberg
Gregory Corso's an aphoristic poet, and a poet of ideas. What modern poets write with such terse clarity that their verses stick in the mind without effort? Certainly Yeats, Pound, Williams, Elliot, Kerouac, Creeley, Dylan & Corso have that quality. Corso's handling of ideas is unique, as in various one-word title poems...--Excerpted from the Foreward by Alan Ginsberg