Corso lived close to the mystery of death and in this volume it is his central theme. Corso is seldom macabre. A bursting vitality carries him back to the sensations of the living, though always it is the reality behind the obvious, which has caught his eye. “How I love to probe life,” Corso has written, “That’s what poetry is to me, a wondrous prober… It’s not the metre or measure of a line, a breath; not ‘law’ music; but the assembly of great eye sounds placed into an inspired measured idea.”
Happy Birthday of Death by Gregory Corso
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Paperback. Published by New Directions, 1960. 91 pages
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Corso lived close to the mystery of death and in this volume it is his central theme. Corso is seldom macabre. A bursting vitality carries him back to the sensations of the living, though always it is the reality behind the obvious, which has caught his eye. “How I love to probe life,” Corso has written, “That’s what poetry is to me, a wondrous prober… It’s not the metre or measure of a line, a breath; not ‘law’ music; but the assembly of great eye sounds placed into an inspired measured idea.”
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