Long Live Man

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ISBN-10: 0811200256
ISBN-13: 9780811200257
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 01/17/1962
Dimensions: 7.99" L, 5.24" W, 0.27" H

Long Live Man

byGregory Corso

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Overview

Long live Man! sings the poet Gregory Corso–despite atom bombs and computers, cold wars that get hot and togetherness that isn’t, too many cars and too little love…and in these poems he celebrates the wonders (and the laughs and griefs) of being a man alive. Whether he is musing on antic glories amid the ruins of the Acropolis or watching a New York child invent games on the city’s sidewalks, Corso is there in it, putting us into it, with the magic of vision, with the senses–awakening images, that transmute reality into something more–insights that let us share his joy and echo his shout of Long live Man!

  • Gregory Corso was born on March 26, 1930 in New York City. His first book of poetry was published by City Lights Press in 1955.

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In terms of language Corso always seems to me the most interesting of the Beats...extracting all the power from standard syntax and rhetoric, maintaining the Beat anti-academicism...Put this together with the experimentalism and relevance of the Beat outlook, and you have poetry that not only shares our experience but creates it.–Hayden Carruth
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811200256
ISBN-13: 9780811200257
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 01/17/1962
Dimensions: 7.99" L, 5.24" W, 0.27" H
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