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“A Clown in a Grave”: Complexities and Tensions in the Works of Gregory Corso

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Helen Lojek
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 881–882.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-881
Published: 01 December 2000
... 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...
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Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present; South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso,Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden

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Jeanne Campbell Reesman
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 644–646.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-644
Published: 01 September 2005
.... 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 may combine and recombine over time to create new...
View articletitled, Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present; South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, <span class="search-highlight">Corso</span>,Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden View PDF for article titled, Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present; South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, <span class="search-highlight">Corso</span>,Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden
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Ironic Institutions: Counterculture Fictions and the American Express Company

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Merve Emre
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 107–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865211
Published: 01 March 2015
...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...
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Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall

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James R. Giles
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 880–881.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-880
Published: 01 December 2000
... 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...
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Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic Tradition

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Victor Strandberg
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 882–883.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-882
Published: 01 December 2000
... 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...
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Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s

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John Gennari
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 406–408.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267936
Published: 01 June 2020
... military intelligence officers and American studies professors, already-canonized and soon-to-be-famous countercultural and activist writers. The American figures who produced a complex but largely alluring figure of America include Sylvia Plath, F. O. Matthiessen, Robert Spiller, Gregory Corso, Erica Jong...
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The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory

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Christopher Gair
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 400–403.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267912
Published: 01 June 2020
...), “Howl” (1956), and Naked Lunch (1959). Revolving around them was an outer circle of poets and novelists, including Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, LeRoi Jones (later, Amiri Baraka), John Clellon Holmes, Philip Whalen, and Michael McClure, as well as the charismatic...
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Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America; Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity

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Susan Kurjiaka
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 637–639.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-637
Published: 01 September 2005
.... 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 may combine and recombine over time to create new...
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Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War; Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind; The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession

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Philip Joseph
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 639–641.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-639
Published: 01 September 2005
...,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...
View articletitled, Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War; Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind; The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession View PDF for article titled, Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War; Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind; The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession
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Seems like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition; Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt

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Arthur Knight
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 642–644.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-642
Published: 01 September 2005
.... 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 may combine and recombine over time to create new...
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Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space; Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopian Fiction

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Kenneth M. Roemer
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 646–648.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-646
Published: 01 September 2005
.... 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 may combine and recombine over time to create new...
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The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture; Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique

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Arthur L. Little, Jr.
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 648–651.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-648
Published: 01 September 2005
.... 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 may combine and recombine over time to create new...
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Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America; The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century

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Susan Albertine
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 651–653.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-651
Published: 01 September 2005
.... 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 may combine and recombine over time to create new...
View articletitled, Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America; The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century View PDF for article titled, Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America; The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century
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Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University,1880-1980

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Andrew Hoberek
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 653–655.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-653
Published: 01 September 2005
... 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 may combine and recombine over time to create new borderland spaces and discourses. Rosemary King exam- ines...
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A Poetics of Dissociability: Poetry and Punk in Los Angeles, 1976–83

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Diarmuid Hester
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 183–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335397
Published: 01 March 2019
... groundbreaking anthology The New American Poetry in 1960. Exemplars of a Beat ethos and aesthetic, such poets advocated the use of illegal drugs like pot and peyote as part of their creative process, and their poems echo the work of Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso in an apparent pursuit of authenticity...
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Index to Volume 87 (March 2015–December 2015)

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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3454777
Published: 01 December 2015
.... Consumerism. “Neoliberal Style: Alex Haley, Hunter S. Thompson, and Coun- tercultures,” by Daniel Worden, 799–823. Cool. “Reading Playboy for the Science Fiction,” by Jordan Carroll, 331–58. Corso, Gregory. “Ironic Institutions: Counterculture Fictions and the Ameri- can Express Company,” by Merve...
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The Stock Ticker in the Garden: Frank Norris, American Literary Naturalism, and Capitalocene Aesthetics

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Philomena Polefrone
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 485–511.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616163
Published: 01 September 2020
... . Stoll Steven . 1998 . The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California . Berkeley : Univ. of California Press . Stoppani Antonio . 1873 . Corso di Geologia . Vol. 2 . Milan : G. Bernardoni e G. Brigola . Tichi Cecelia . 2015 . “ The Rancher...
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Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

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Elizabeth Freeman
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 737–765.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811730
Published: 01 December 2014
...- ning of the Jews at Corso, making him what the narrator calls, in racial- ized terms, “the sum total of what is the Jew . . . black with the pain of a participation that, four centuries later, made him a victim, as he felt . . . the degradation by which his people had survived” (4–5). Here we see...
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