biography
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Corso, Gregory (Nunzio)
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pronunciation:
[kaw(r)soh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1930–2001)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in New York City, USA. He spent three years in prison as a juvenile, then worked as a manual labourer, reporter, and merchant seaman (1950–3). Based in New York City, he was a central member of the Beat poetry movement (1960s), as seen in The Happy Birthday of Death (1960). Important volumes include Elegiac Feelings American (1970), dedicated to Jack Kerouac, and among later works are Writings from Ox (1981) and Mindfield: New and Selected Poems (1989). He also taught at the State University, Buffalo, NY. |
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