... Rosemary A. King. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2004. xvii, 190 pp. $39.95. South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden. By Glenn Sheldon. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 190 pp. Paper, $32.00. These books explore how words and spaces...

... Corso.By Michael Skau. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. x, 233 pp. $34.95. A familiar 1969 photograph shows Gregory Corso at Jack Kerouac’s funeral. Corso’s overcoated figure and rebellious hair...

...Merve Emre This essay argues that literary redescriptions of international American Express offices by queer writers like Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, and James Baldwin allowed the 1960s literary counterculture to establish a relationship to American corporate culture grounded in irony: the...

... Michael Skau. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. x, 233 pp. $34.95. A familiar 1969 photograph shows Gregory Corso at Jack Kerouac’s funeral. Corso’s overcoated figure and rebellious hair are silhouetted darkly against...

... subtlety’’ are blatant understatements. In a letter to Ginsberg, Kerouac observed that Corso ‘‘looks like a great beachcomber poet and in Desolation Angels the Corso character appears...

... Rosemary A. King. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2004. xvii, 190 pp. $39.95. South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden. By Glenn Sheldon. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 190 pp. Paper, $32.00. These books explore how words and spaces...

... the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden. By Glenn Sheldon. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 190 pp. Paper, $32.00. These books explore how words and spaces may combine and recombine over time to create new borderland spaces and discourses. Rosemary King exam...

...,CollegeofWilliamandMary Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present. By Rosemary A. King. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2004. xvii, 190 pp. $39.95. South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden. By Glenn Sheldon. Jefferson...

...,CollegeofWilliamandMary Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present. By Rosemary A. King. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2004. xvii, 190 pp. $39.95. South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden. By Glenn Sheldon. Jefferson...

...,CollegeofWilliamandMary Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present. By Rosemary A. King. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2004. xvii, 190 pp. $39.95. South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden. By Glenn Sheldon. Jefferson...

...,CollegeofWilliamandMary Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present. By Rosemary A. King. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2004. xvii, 190 pp. $39.95. South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden. By Glenn Sheldon. Jefferson...

... Rosemary A. King. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2004. xvii, 190 pp. $39.95. South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden. By Glenn Sheldon. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 190 pp. Paper, $32.00. These books explore how words and spaces...

... and Gregory Corso in an apparent pursuit of authenticity and transcendence. “Venice Recalled,” one of Boyd’s poems included in Allen’s collection, regards the community from the vantage of one who had departed for San Francisco and wistfully recalls the Venice West poets’ shared commitment to the...

... Fiction,” by Jordan Carroll, 331–58. Corso, Gregory. “Ironic Institutions: Counterculture Fictions and the Ameri- can Express Company,” by Merve Emre, 107–36. Counterculture, the. “Ironic Institutions: Counterculture Fictions and the American Express Company,” by Merve Emre, 107–36...