Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet

After Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, Gregory Corso (1930-2001) was the fourth "Daddy" of the socio-literary movement they called the Beat Generation. Those "angel-headed hipsters" who came to prominence in the 1950s were the voice of a disaffected generation of renegades, rebels, and rabble-rousers in the post-war conservative years of President Eisenhower. They'd had enough of conformity, they weren't going to take it anymore, and they blew just as loud and as deep as ...