Gregory Corso's collection of poems contains works of major
proportions. The title poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac, fusing a
memorial to the poet's dead friend with a bitter lament for the
present state of America. The second major work, "The Geometric
Poem," published previously in a limited edition by Fernanda Pivano
in Italy, is a complex visionary restatement of themes from ancient
Egyptian religion. Reproduced in facsimile from Corso's handwritten
sheets, his marginal decorations, drawings and glyphs are included.
The balance of the book is drawn from his shorter poems. Corso's
reputation as a leading poet and co-founder of the Beat movement is
clearly upheld in these poems. His instinct for integrated lyrical
statement, his special contribution to Beat poetry, is as strong as
ever; his sense of humor and sexuality have not diminished. But he
has added a wider-ranging moral urgency and a new depth of humane
solicitude that hold even his strangest visions close to the heart
of contemporary feeling.
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