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- catalog abstract ""For all his charm and intelligence poet Gregory Corso lived a vagabond life. He never held down a regular job. Until his final years, he rarely stayed very long under the same roof. He spent long stretches - some as long as four or five years - abroad. Many of his letters came from Europe - France, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Greece - as he kept in touch with his circle of friends - among them his best friends Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He left (or was left by) a number of girlfriends and he fathered five children along the way. He was apt to raise a bit of a ruckus at poetry readings and other public events. No one could be sure what he might do next except that he would write poetry and get published and that it would be widely read." "When the idea of a book of selected letters was first proposed, Gregory had some reservations about it. Would the book reveal too much about his private life? But then with typical hubris he said the equivalent of "let it all hang out" and "all" does hang out in An Accidental Autobiography. The book is indeed the next thing to an unplanned self-portrait and gives a lively sense of the life Gregory Corso led, marching to his own drummer and leaving in his wake such marvelous books of Beat poetry as The Happy Birthday of Death, Elegiac Feelings America, Long Live Man, and Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Correspondence. Selections".
- catalog contributor b12797714.
- catalog contributor b12797715.
- catalog contributor b12797716.
- catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""For all his charm and intelligence poet Gregory Corso lived a vagabond life. He never held down a regular job. Until his final years, he rarely stayed very long under the same roof. He spent long stretches - some as long as four or five years - abroad. Many of his letters came from Europe - France, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Greece - as he kept in touch with his circle of friends - among them his best friends Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He left (or was left by) a number of girlfriends and he fathered five children along the way. He was apt to raise a bit of a ruckus at poetry readings and other public events. No one could be sure what he might do next except that he would write poetry and get published and that it would be widely read." "When the idea of a book of selected letters was first proposed, Gregory had some reservations about it. Would the book reveal too much about his private life? But then with typical hubris he said the equivalent of "let it all hang out" and "all" does hang out in An Accidental Autobiography. The book is indeed the next thing to an unplanned self-portrait and gives a lively sense of the life Gregory Corso led, marching to his own drummer and leaving in his wake such marvelous books of Beat poetry as The Happy Birthday of Death, Elegiac Feelings America, Long Live Man, and Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The Letters 1.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 444 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0811215350 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New Directions,".
- catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
- catalog subject "811/.54 B 21".
- catalog subject "Beat generation Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Beat generation.".
- catalog subject "Corso, Gregory Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "PS3505.O763 Z48 2003".
- catalog subject "Poets, American 20th century Correspondence.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Letters 1.".
- catalog title "An accidental autobiography : the selected letters of Gregory Corso / edited with commentary and an introduction by Bill Morgan ; foreword by Patti Smith.".
- catalog title "Correspondence. Selections".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".