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Person Detail: Gregory Corso
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| Full Name: Gregory Corso | ||
| Biography: (1930-2001) Poet. Gregory Corso was born on Bleecker Street in New York City. Corso spent much of the first thirteen years of his life in orphanages, foster homes, and reform schools around New York City. He lived for a few years of his early life at 190 Clinton Street, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. Later he lived at Avenue C and 5th Street, and also at the Hotel Chelsea. When he was sixteen (according to anecdotal testimony), Corso and two accomplices, utilizing nothing more than walkie-talkies obtained from an army-navy surplus store, masterminded the robbery of a Household Finance office for $21,000. He was caught and sent to Clinton State Prison in Dannemora, New York, where he spent three years, reading dictionaries, the poetry of Shelley, Dostoyevsky, Stendhal, Thomas Chatterton, Christopher Marlow and other books. When he was released in 1950, he met Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and other assorted Beats. He taught at SUNY Buffalo until 1965, when he was bagged for refusing to sign a loyalty oath. |
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| 1930 |
New York County Gregory Nunzio Corso was born on Bleecker Street in Manhattan, New York, in 1930. |
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| 2001 |
(Unknown) County Gregory Corso died in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, in 2001. |
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| 1958 |
(Unknown) County Gasoline (Pub: Lawrence Ferlinghetti/City Lights Books. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry. |
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| 1965 |
Erie County Corso taught at SUNY Buffalo until 1965, when he was bagged for refusing to sign a loyalty oath. |
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| 2001 |
(Unknown) County Gregory Corso was interred at Campo Cestio, Rome, Lazio, Italy. |
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| 1960 |
(Unknown) County The Happy Birthday of Death |
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| 1961 |
(Unknown) County The American Express |
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| 1962 |
(Unknown) County Long Live Man |
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| 1970 |
(Unknown) County Elegaic Feelings American |
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| 1981 |
(Unknown) County Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit Collection of poetry. |
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| 1989 |
(Unknown) County Mindfield: New and Selected Poems (Pub: Thunder's Mouth. ISBN: ) Collection of poetry. |
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| 1955 |
(Unknown) County The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems Collection of poetry. |
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| 1964 |
(Unknown) County The Mutation of the Spirit Collection of poetry. |
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| 1958 |
(Unknown) County Bomb Collection of poetry. |
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New York County Corso lived at several different addresses in Manhattan, New York. |
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Clinton County At age 16, Corso began serving a three-year sentence at Clinton State Prison for theft. While in prison he read widely in the classics, including Dostoyevsky, Stendhal, Shelley, Thomas Chatterton, and Christopher Marlowe, as well as the dictionary. It was in Clinton State Prison that Corso began writing poems. After being released, Corso went back to Greenwich Village where he met Ginsberg and became involved in the nascent Beat Generation. |
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