It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats'
from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it
belongs quite as much to other and older traditions in world
literature. One of these is the revival of pure poetry whenever an
"original"--be it Rimbaud or Whitman--has broken with current verse
conventions to give free rein to the magic of language. Another is
that ancient pre-occupation of poets--the sense of the immediacy of
death. Like Villon or Dylan Thomas, Corso lives close to the
mystery of death. It is, perhaps, his central theme, on which
variations ranging from the terrible to the comic are sounded. But
Corso is seldom macabre. A bursting vitality always 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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