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Title: Long Live Man by Gregory Corso, Patti Smith ISBN: 0-8112-0025-6 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: December, 1962 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Life, Death, Myth, Travel, Pain, Beauty
Comment: Corso's probably the most criminally underrated poet I can think of, especially considering how much today's teenagers hold the rest of the Beats(a label that made Corso a bit uncomfortable), Kerouac and Ginsberg especially, in awe. Oh well, genius is usually ignored or misunderstood. His style, ranging from the purest of aphorism to the wildest celebration of language's infinite flexibility(he even breaks it a few times!) is never forced; it only serves to inundate the reader with the power of one of the last Romantic souls. A study in contradictions--terse yet lyrical, death-obsessed yet wildly hopeful, grittily simple yet bathed in references-- Corso was a true unique.
Long Live Man is the book that, along with Happy Birthday of Death, ties for best claim to being the man's masterpiece. Written over a series of years of travel, from Greece to Tangiers to Paris to the rest of Europe to New York, this collection chronicles his emotional trials and triumphs from monument to monument, little town to little town, acquaintance to acquaintance. Throughout this time of physical uprooting, Corso is going through a great deal of emotional turmoil. The omnipresence of death and the sense that everything will come to naught press down upon him, but he fights back with that all-consuming love of life that even outdoes the "Carpe Diem" poems of the Roman Horace for sheer vivacity. He flings image after image, experience after experience after experience, at Death, God, Love, Despair, (hu)Man(ity), and ends up with a celebration of all that is worthwhile in life, set against the chilly background of impermanence and death. He binds all of that to his alternately aphoristic and linguistically wild style to make art that will last forever in the reader's mind. There are parts that I can't help but quote all the time when I want to say something profound. Truly, a wonder. Ps: there are a few lines in "Greece" that _will_, if I have any say in the matter, be my epitaph(page 25, the train of thought starting with "Life, I love you..."). Why does NOBODY remember this guy?!
Rating: 4
Summary: The triumph of mankind is...
Comment: the subject of this collection of poems. Gregory Corso, Beatnik poet extroardinaire, writes about the glory of being a (hu-)man, Alive, here, in the moment... These poems span a period of traveling for Corso, with sections about his journeys in Greece, Tangiers, and other parts of Europe as well as poems about New York. If you've never read anything by Gregory Corso, this is a good place to start. He creates phrases and passages that stick in your mind at once; this book of poetry needs to be read, and re-read, then read again.
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Title: Gasoline & the Vestal Lady on Brattle by Gregory Corso ISBN: 0872860884 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams ISBN: 0872860175 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 0140042520 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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