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Book Title
Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit
Publication Name
Herald Of The Autochthonic Spirit
Title
Herald Of The Autochthonic Spirit
Author
Gregory Corso
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0811208087
EAN
9780811208086
ISBN
9780811208086
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Genre
Poetry
Release Year
1981
Release Date
01/02/1981
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.2in
Item Length
8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Publication Year
1981
Topic
General, American / General
Number of Pages
64 Pages

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Gregory Corso is still kicking "the ivory applecart of tyrannical values," heralding the wild and keenly experienced life. Since the 1950s, when with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others, Corso electrified the literary establishment with what he describes as "spontaneous subterranean poesy of the streets," he has fathered "three fleshed angels," traveled through Europe and Egypt, seen the demise of several fellow "Daddies of an Age," and now finds himself over half a century old. The lush, fervent oratory of Shelley is evident in these poems of one who may be his most ardent American heir, and the author of The Happy Birthday of Death and Elegiac Feelings American never entirely forgets that a "leaky lifeboat" is the mortal's only home. "You'd think there would be chaos/the futility of it all/Yet children are born/oft times spitting images of us/ ... and the gift keeps on coming." Corso knows death, despair, and silence only too well, and his first major collection in eleven years is permeated with a sense of crucial choices to be made. "Columbia U Poesy Reading--1975" begins with Beat history and ends with a solitary vision of God in the form of the muse: "Seated on a cold park bench/I heard her moan: 'O Gregorio Gregorio/you'll fail me, I know/Walking away/a little old lady behind me was singing: True! True!'/'Not so!'/ rang the spirit, 'Not so!'" In a cocky, exuberant blend of high style and down-home New Yorkese, the Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit brings more auspicious tidings.

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New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811208087
ISBN-13
9780811208086
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201736

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Book Title
Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit
Author
Gregory Corso
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
1981
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
64 Pages

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Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.2in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3505.O763h4 1981
Copyright Date
1981
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
81-009486

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