- Date of Birth: 26 March, 1930
- Place of Birth: New York City, New York
- Biography: Gregory Nunzio Corso (March 26, 1930 – January 17, 2001) was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs).
Filmography
- Corso: The Last Beat (2009)
- Lowell Blues: The Words of Jack Kerouac (2000)
- Ginsberg - Egy költö a Lower East Side-ról (1997)
- The Last Beat Movie (1997)
- The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1996)
- What About Me (1993)
- The Godfather: Part III (1990)
- Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1978)
- Me and My Brother (1969)
- Wholly Communion (1965)
- Pull My Daisy (1959)
News
Small orchestras like the Plymouth Symphony don't usually commission new music by a major American composer, but that's what the Ford Made in American project is all about. ... Full Article
The combination of jazz and poetry is magical, and Portsmouth has been lucky enough to be home to the festival that celebrates it all: Jazzmouth. ... Full Article
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
popmatters.com –
2008-03-18
Early in Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets , Allen Ginsberg tells us that the invention of LSD was as important, if not more so, than the invention of the atomic bomb. ... Full Article
Beatniks And Bolsheviks by Vassily Aksyonov
tnr.com –
1987-11-30
I quote myself from The Burn, not out of vanity or impudence, but because I haven't been able to imagine the general secretary's perspective more clearly since then: The distinguishing marks of a wicked beatnik, "pidarast and apstractionist," were well... ... Full Article