Gregory Corso papers, 1949-1996

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Series I: Correspondence, 1955-1979, Undated

This series contains correspondence written to Corso as well as letters and notes written by Corso to others. The material is arranged alphabetically by correspondent's last name, and then chronologically within each correspondent. Letters written by Corso that remain in the collection are generally items that were written but never posted, rather than carbons of outgoing correspondence.



Box 1 Folder 1 Ansen, Allen to Corso, 1969 January


Box 1 Folder 2 Biderman, Peggy to Jonathan Robbins, 1977 March 14


Corso, Gregory


Box 1 Folder 3 Unaddressed, July 25


Box 1 Folder 4 Unaddressed, undated

(Postscript from letter- notes on Egyptian hieroglyphics)


Box 1 Folder 5 to 8 To Peggy Biderman, undated, (4 Folders)


Box 1 Folder 9 To Lenore Kandel Fritsch, undated


Box 1 Folder 10 To Allen Ginsbery and Peter Orlovsky, undated


Box 1 Folder 11 To Michael Horowitz, undated


Box 1 Folder 12 to 13 To James Laughlin, undated, (2 Folders)


Box 1 Folder 14 To Rosie, undated


Box 1 Folder 15 To Stephen Spender, et.al., undated


Box 1 Folder 16 To Ted Wilentz, circa, 1955


Box 1 Folder 17 To Michael Horowitz, 1959 October 8


Box 1 Folder 18 To Jack Kerouac, 1960


Box 1 Folder 19 To William Burroughs, 1961


Box 1 Folder 20 To Michael Horowitz, 1963 June 15


Box 1 Folder 21 To Allen Ginsberg, 1964


Box 1 Folder 22 To James Laughlin, 1965 October 15

(incomplete)


Box 1 Folder 23 Unaddressed, 1965 November 2


Box 1 Folder 24 To Ettore Sottsass and Fernanda Sottsass Pivano, December, 1965


Box 1 Folder 25 To Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, 1966 June 3


Box 1 Folder 26 To Allen Ginsberg, 1966 August 25


Box 1 Folder 27 to 28 To Andreas Brown, 1969, (2 Folders)


Box 1 Folder 29 To Andreas Brown, 1969

(sent with "Elegaic Feelings American")


Box 1 Folder 30 To The Government, 1969


Box 1 Folder 31 To "Cher Lawyer,", 1969 January 23


To Peggy Biderman


Box 1 Folder 32 197-


Box 1 Folder 33 1974 March 23


Box 1 Folder 34 1975 May 17


Box 1 Folder 35 1975 October 9


Box 1 Folder 36 1975 December 9


Box 1 Folder 37 1976 January 19


Box 1 Folder 38 1976 March 9


Box 1 Folder 39 1976 April


Box 1 Folder 40 1976 April 16

(includes birth announcement for Corso's son Orfeo)


Box 1 Folder 42 1977 August 8


Box 1 Folder 43 1978


Box 1 Folder 44 1978 March 10


Box 1 Folder 45 1978 October 1


Box 1 Folder 46 to 47 1979, (2 Folders)


Box 1 Folder 48 1979 October 18


Box 1 Folder 49 1979 November 9


Box 1 Folder 50 1979 December 8


Box 1 Folder 41 Unaddressed, 1977 April 4


Box 1 Folder 51 Crawford, Cheryl to Corso, 1965 September 9


Box 1 Folder 52 Dobell, Byron to Corso, 1965 July 19


Box 1 Folder 53 Eberhart, Richard to Corso, 1971 November 2


Ferlinghetti, Lawrence


Box 1 Folder 54 To Corso, 1958 October 13


To Andreas Brown


Box 1 Folder 55 1969 January 28


Box 1 Folder 56 1970 January 27


Box 1 Folder 57 1970 February 17


Box 1 Folder 58 To Corso, 1973 April 14


Ginsberg Allen, to Corso


Box 1 Folder 59 1968 October 29


Box 1 Folder 60 1969 January 28


Box 1 Folder 61 1969 April 15



Box 2 Folder 1 1969 June 12


Box 2 Folder 2 1973 August 15


Box 2 Folder 3 1974 September 9

(with enclosed photographs)


Box 2 Folder 4 1974 September 13


Box 2 Folder 5 Ginsberg Allen, to John Robbins, 1977 February 17


Box 2 Folder 6 Laughlin, James to Corso, 1966 March 1


Box 2 Folder 7 Orlovsky, Peter to Gregory Corso, 1965 July 9


Box 2 Folder 8 Randall, Margaret and Robert David Cohen to "Dear Friends,", 1968 October


Box 2 Folder 9 Rogers, Mary to Corso, Undated


Box 2 Folder 10 Soyer, Raphael to Gregory Corso, 1966

(written in catalog for Soyer's April 1966 exhibition at the Forum Gallery which included a portrait of Corso)


Box 2 Folder 11 Tortoria, Vincent to Corso, 1966


Box 2 Folder 12 Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1965-1969

Series II: Photographs, 1962-1967, Undated

This series contains a small number of photographs, professional portraits as well as snapshopts, of Corso and his friends and associates. There are also a small number of photographs in the correspondence series that were enclosures in letters and remain in their original context; this is noted in the finding aid.


Box 2 Folder 13 Gregory Corso, Undated

(signed by Corso)


Box 2 Folder 14 Gregory Corso, 1973

(signed by Corso)


Box 2 Folder 15 Gregory Corso and Peggy Biderman reading "The Body Electric,", 1973

(inscribed to Biderman, signed by Corso and Tony Leonardi)


Box 2 Folder 16 Gregory Corso, Peggy Biderman, etc., 1973

(signed by Corso)


Box 2 Folder 17 Gregory Corso in New York City, by Elsa Dorfman, undated

(signed by Elsa Dorfman and Gregory Corso)


Box 2 Folder 18 Miscellaneous photos of Corso and Associates (including William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg), 1962-1967, undated, 1962-1967, undated

Series III: Writings, 1949-1996, Undated

The writings series, the largest in the collection, is primarily comprised of poetry, with some prose writing. The items in this series are listed individually by title, if supplied, or by the first line of the poem. Also included in this series are a number of notebooks containing poems, poetry fragments, notes, and sketches.


General Writings and Documents


Box 2 Folder 19 Committee on Poetry's Statement on LeRoi Jones' Trial, 1968 January 6


Box 2 Folder 20 Contemporary Poets of the English Language Questionnaire, 1968


Box 2 Folder 21 Corso's Statement about his Refusal to Sign a Loyalty Oath, 1969

(with copy of oath)


Box 2 Folder 22 Ginsberg, Allen-- "The Old Man Sings at His White Hair" and Corso-- "Snaked Arms and Bleeding Legs"


Box 2 Folder 23 Marcel Proust Questionnaire-- filled out by Corso, 1967 April 9


Box 2 Folder 24 Questionnaire for Doubleday & Co., undated


Box 2 Folder 25 Syndicate Plan, undated


Poems-- by Corso


Box 2 Folder 26 "10 Times a Poem,", December, 1967

(limited edition collection of poetry)


Box 2 Folder 57 "1964 Thoughts on God"

(multiple drafts)


Box 2 Folder 28 "Academically Speaking"


Box 2 Folder 29 "Agents are cleaning their pistols…"


Box 2 Folder 30 "Ahead… 50 miles ahead…"


Box 2 Folder 31 "All Hallows Eve in Cleveland"


Box 2 Folder 32 "Ah but I feel I know O so and…"


Box 2 Folder 33 "An Eversion of Mischance"


Box 2 Folder 34 'The Anarchiad"


Box 2 Folder 35 "And as expanded nine billion celled brain…"


Box 2 Folder 36 "And she droned such silences…"


Box 2 Folder 37 "And when 12 belled no one happied…"


Box 2 Folder 38 "The Angel of Old"


Box 2 Folder 39 "Army"


Box 2 Folder 40 "Augments"


[Autobiography]


Box 2 Folder 41 Draft Fragments


Box 2 Folder 42 Corrected Proof


Box 2 Folder 43 "Away One Year"


Box 2 Folder 44 "Back to Space"


Box 2 Folder 45 "Battersea Power House"


Box 2 Folder 46 "Between star and quasar wheeling swiftly…"


Box 2 Folder 47 "Between two points I span…"


Box 2 Folder 48 "Birthday Poem,", 1973 March 26


Box 2 Folder 49 "Bomb"

(multiple drafts-- including first draft and multiple variant page layouts)


Box 2 Folder 50 "Burn your convention young child…"


Box 2 Folder 51 "The businessman in all his dignity…"


Box 2 Folder 52 "But I Do Not Need Kindness!"


Box 2 Folder 53 "In Honor of Those the Negroes are Revolting Against"


Box 2 Folder 54 "Church on the Guidecca, Venice"


Box 2 Folder 55 "Circ the circle full- the wooden sun…"


Box 2 Folder 56 "Colleges of the 60's, you are young America…"


Box 2 Folder 57 "Composite 2"


Box 2 Folder 58 "Continental Images"


Box 2 Folder 59 "Crashing down time…"


Box 2 Folder 60 "Dear Villon Dear Milarepa"


Box 2 Folder 61 "December"


Box 2 Folder 62 "Dedication Poem: For Hope, My Angel, My Sura, The Only Girl I Ever Loved"

(two drafts)


Box 2 Folder 63 "Dialogue"

(multiple drafts)


Box 2 Folder 64 "Dream of Dreams"


Box 2 Folder 65 "Doll Poem"



Box 3 Folder 1 'Early Morning Poetry"


Box 3 Folder 2 "Ecce Home"


Ecce Homo "Elegiac Feelings American"


Box 3 Folder 3 "Elegiac Feelings American-- for the Dear Memory of John Kerouac,", 1969

(original manuscript with corrections)


Box 3 Folder 4 Draft Material not Included in Final Poem, 1969


Box 3 Folder 5 Drafts-- titled "Gregorian Rants" and "Four"


Box 3 Folder 6 to 7 Draft titled "Spontaneous Requiem for an American, (2 Folders)


Box 3 Folder 8 Draft titled "Spontaneous Requiem for a Beautiful American"


Box 3 Folder 9 Ramparts Magazine March, 1970

(contains "Spontaneous Requiem" an early published version of "Elegiac Feelings American")


Box 3 Folder 10 "For Harry's Viva Budgie"


Box 3 Folder 11 "Encounter"

(multiple drafts)


Box 3 Folder 12 "The Eye is Cause of the Sight"


Box 3 Folder 13 "First Impression of Florence"


Box 3 Folder 14 "Flight"


Box 3 Folder 15 "Florida 6"


Box 3 Folder 16 "The Flower Peddler


Box 3 Folder 17 "For K.R. Who Killed Himself in Charles St. Jail,", 1957

(also includes draft titled "In Memory of K.R.")


Box 3 Folder 18 "For My Pregnant Wife, Be it Girl or Boy"


Box 3 Folder 19 "For the Love of Words- for Wm. Shakespeare's 400th Happy Birthday"

(multiple drafts including alternate title: For the Poet Who Had a Virgin Language")


Box 3 Folder 20 "Four years I have faced my brow's center…"


Box 3 Folder 21 "Fragment from Novel Prologue-2" and "Fragment from Novel Prologue-3"


Box 3 Folder 22 "From Hell…"


Box 3 Folder 23 "Further Reflections"


Box 3 Folder 24 "The genes of the spirit apparitionate…"


Box 3 Folder 25 "The God I knew to be…"


Box 3 Folder 26 "G.O.P. Convention"


Box 3 Folder 27 "The greatest discovery a man can make…"

(multiple drafts)


Box 3 Folder 28 "Heed me well, embryonic scout…"


Box 3 Folder 29 "Hello…"


Box 3 Folder 30 "High-heeled poverty…"


Box 3 Folder 31 "Hooooooooooo Like a Zoomy Slip of Gold I Go"


Box 3 Folder 32 "How fantastic the soft rocket's lift-off…"


Box 3 Folder 33 "How haunts us the buffaloes earthtight will…"


Box 3 Folder 34 "How so suddenly in a snap like wham…"


Box 3 Folder 35 "How sweetly fast…"


Box 3 Folder 36 "I am a drawn mouse…"

(with sketch of mouse)


Box 3 Folder 37 "I am no longer I…"


Box 3 Folder 38 "I am not together…"


Box 3 Folder 39 "I am not that I of face…"


Box 3 Folder 40 "I damned both the sword and victim…"


Box 3 Folder 41 "I do not know"


Box 3 Folder 42 "I Held a Shelley Manuscript,", 1955


Box 3 Folder 43 "I know all there is to know…"


Box 3 Folder 44 "I long for the time of great Cybele…"


Box 3 Folder 45 "I saw these years of life…"


Box 3 Folder 46 "I sit near my body sleeping…"


Box 3 Folder 47 "I would a tinkler of portents be…"


Box 3 Folder 48 "If a Hollywood star is not my ego…"


Box 3 Folder 49 "If you are earth…"


Box 3 Folder 50 "I'll my marble aeroplane…"


Box 3 Folder 51 "I'll remember earth…"


Box 3 Folder 52 "In a lurid clay vision…"


Box 3 Folder 53 "In Central Park"


Box 3 Folder 54 "In dreams of reality…"


Box 3 Folder 55 "In moving space moves time and change…"

(multiple drafts)


Box 3 Folder 56 "In the middle of the night negroes play…"


Box 3 Folder 57 "In solar camp exiled to a dead star…"


Box 3 Folder 58 "In time there are the elements solitary and undisturbed…"


Box 3 Folder 59 "Infinity meets itself…"


Box 3 Folder 60 "Instead of earth a more difficult planet…"


Box 3 Folder 61 "An instrument of the Muse I am not…"


Box 3 Folder 62 "It is snowing in the summer of my sleep…"


Box 3 Folder 63 "It was hell to come by…"


Box 3 Folder 64 "It wasn't when I lost God I lost life…"


Box 3 Folder 65 "It's getting late…"


Box 3 Folder 66 "It's not like some spy I am…"


Box 3 Folder 67 "The Lammergeyer"


Box 3 Folder 68 "Last Night I Drove a Car…"


Box 3 Folder 69 "Last night was night at its nightest…"


Box 3 Folder 70 "Let Us Inspect the Lyre"

(multiple drafts)


Box 3 Folder 71 "Like a snail leaving its shell…"

(multiple drafts)


Box 3 Folder 72 "Lines Written November 22, 23-1963-- In Discord--"

(multiple drafts)


Box 3 Folder 73 "Lived I in the first house…"


Box 3 Folder 74 Long Live Man (multiple drafts of various poems published in Long Live Man)



Box 4 Folder 1 "Lower East Side Puerto Rican Street"


Box 4 Folder 2 "The Mad Yak"


Box 4 Folder 3 "Mafia"


Box 4 Folder 4 "The Making of a Poem- At One Sitting"

(multiple drafts)


Box 4 Folder 5 "Many are the beginnings where legends…"


Box 4 Folder 6 ""Masks and Attainments- for Howard Kanovitz"


Box 4 Folder 7 "Men should wear antlers she said…"


Box 4 Folder 8 "Mind is centered on the cosmosian bar…"


Box 4 Folder 9 "Mind lulling…"


Box 4 Folder 10 "Mine galactic incestry O oaken ma…"


Mindfield circa, 1989


Box 4 Folder 11 Drafts, with manuscript annotations and corrections



Mapcase 14-E-6 Master Galleys

(corrected and annotated)



Box 4 Folder 12 to 14 Proofs, (3 Folders)


Box 4 Folder 15 "The Missing Link is the Birth of Spirit"


Box 4 Folder 16 [Music]-- prose



Mapcase 14-E-6 "Mutation of the Spirit: A Shuffle Poem Unshuffled"



Box 4 Folder 17 "Name Droppings"


Box 4 Folder 18 "Neither white-smocked in science…"


Box 4 Folder 19 "No Doubt What I saw,", 1957


Box 4 Folder 20 "No was not the Muse pinned me…"


Box 4 Folder 21 "None Dare Trust Another"


Box 4 Folder 22 "Not often have I hesitated to go beyond…"


Box 4 Folder 23 "Numbers of directions! Lighttime distances!..."


Box 4 Folder 24 "O boats O seas ye nights there…"


Box 4 Folder 25 "O life double me…"


Box 4 Folder 26 "O Mighty Tug"


Box 4 Folder 27 "O my guardian muse…"


Box 4 Folder 28 "O the beauty of all things! The beauty…"


Box 4 Folder 29 "Of Streets and Flowers"


Box 4 Folder 30 "Oh but to be received of wise and sweet…"


Box 4 Folder 31 "The old man of me and…"


Box 4 Folder 32 "On Food"


Box 4 Folder 33 "On Having Once Loved"


Box 4 Folder 34 "On Nearing My 29th Year,", 1959


Box 4 Folder 35 "On Poetry"

(multiple drafts)


Box 4 Folder 36 "On the Death of a Chilean Poet,", 1957


Box 4 Folder 37 "On the walls of a dull furnished room…"


Box 4 Folder 38 "On a street corner in ancient Cathy…"


Box 4 Folder 39 "1234567890…"


Box 4 Folder 40 "Out of fanciful disorder comes… disorder…"


Box 4 Folder 41 "People are afraid…"


Box 4 Folder 42 "Poem to Michelangelo"


Box 4 Folder 43 "Power"


Box 4 Folder 44 Prison Writings-- prose, 1949


Box 4 Folder 45 "A prophet walks twice during his tenure…"


Box 4 Folder 46 "A Rambling Poem on a Rambling Trip to Ohio"


Box 4 Folder 47 "Revenge the Hapless Nightmare"


Box 4 Folder 48 "The river runs but the riverbed is steadfast…"


Box 4 Folder 49 "Seated before a banquet of knowledge…"


Box 4 Folder 50 "Setting the Record of Absurdity Straight"


Box 4 Folder 51 "She says flying saucers and is no…"


Box 4 Folder 52 "She of the days of my heart…"


Box 4 Folder 53 "Space is a journey long ago taken…"


Box 4 Folder 54 "The Spell of Wlamtrice Park"


Box 4 Folder 55 "Spooning opiate the lower visibilities…"


Box 4 Folder 56 "Spring's Melodious Herald"

(early draft entitled "Cythylis")


Box 4 Folder 57 "Still Life"


Box 4 Folder 58 "Suburbia Mad Song"


Box 4 Folder 59 Sweet Jesus, swollen on my lips, I speak thy pain…"


Box 4 Folder 60 "The swimming lights in the black are bright pieces of air…"


Box 4 Folder 61 "The Tarot Poems"



Box 5 Folder 1 "Ten thousand million years ago the cosmos was a year old…"


Box 5 Folder 2 "There became so many of us…"


Box 5 Folder 3 "There is nothing missing…"


Box 5 Folder 4 "There is yet time…"

(multiple drafts)


Box 5 Folder 5 'These truncated troops of palsied geometrics…"


Box 5 Folder 6 "This poem is the mind flow of a damned…"


Box 5 Folder 7 "Thoughts in an Airplane"


Box 5 Folder 8 "Thus when by all great trismegatusian light…"


Box 5 Folder 9 "To be…"


Box 5 Folder 10 "To Bring Back the Dead"


Box 5 Folder 11 "To express a sorrow deep within…"


Box 5 Folder 12 "To hear quasars echo light's first cry…"


Box 5 Folder 13 "To return to my feeling-head…"


Box 5 Folder 14 "The truth about myself…"


Box 5 Folder 15 "Two stars etched on Calabrian stone…"


Box 5 Folder 16 "Unseen journeying in the nuances…"


Box 5 Folder 17 'The violet-white-blackgreen sky…"


Box 5 Folder 18 [Vision of Rotterdam]


Box 5 Folder 19 "What angel shall sharpen its white on this…"


Box 5 Folder 20 "What I was before I returned the antlers to the stag…"


Box 5 Folder 21 "What separates me from you…"


Box 5 Folder 22 "What to the senses seem…"


Box 5 Folder 23 "What wonderful men…and women…"


Box 5 Folder 24 "When I came upon the mystery's source…"


Box 5 Folder 25 "When I Think to Refrain"


Box 5 Folder 26 "When sweet terror thrills…"


Box 5 Folder 27 "Where by god the time comes to stop…"


Box 5 Folder 28 "Who sees the wind sees…"


Box 5 Folder 29 "Who'll believe what I have seen…"


Box 5 Folder 30 "Who unto themselves are none other…"


Box 5 Folder 31 "Wisdom it was made me so happy…"


Box 5 Folder 32 "With oaken ears…"


Box 5 Folder 33 "Woman Seated in Park"


Box 5 Folder 34 "Written While Watching Lenny Bruce Obscenity Trial"


Box 5 Folder 35 "Yesterday where I live…"


Box 5 Folder 36 "You know my present…"


Box 5 Folder 37 "You too shall be known…"


Miscellaneous Poems


Box 5 Folder 38 Drafts and Notes- General


Notebooks


Box 5 Folder 39 Paris, 1965


Box 5 Folder 40 Athens, 1966 February-March


Box 5 Folder 41 to 4 San Francisco, 1968, (3 Folders)



Box 6 Folder 1 San Francisco, 1968 February


Box 6 Folder 2 San Francisco, 1969


Box 6 Folder 3 to 4 San Francisco, February, 1969, (2 Folders)


Box 6 Folder 5 San Francisco, May, 1969


Box 6 Folder 6 Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972


Box 6 Folder 7 1986-1992


Box 6 Folder 8 to 11 Undated, (4 Folders)


Poems-- by Others


Box 6 Folder 12 Heliczer, Piero--The Soap Opera circa, 1966

(copy, with manuscript corrections)


Box 6 Folder 13 Hollander, John-- "Another for Gregory,", undated


Box 6 Folder 14 Olsen, Charles-- "A Maximus Written to Answer Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso,", undated


Box 6 Folder 15 Schenck, Stephen-- "Sweety-bar in time and space…,", undated

(carbon copy with corrections)

Series IV: Artwork, 1954-1977, Undated

This series contains artwork, mostly sketches and drawings done by Corso, as well as a very few items created by others. There are some larger format items, including oil paintings done by Corso and a large oil portrait of the poet in this series as well. The Robert LaVigne Papers contain some sketches of LaVigne done by Corso, as well as portraits of Corso by LaVigne and Jack Kerouac.



Box 7 Folder 1 Abraham and His Tribe Leaving Ur, ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 2 [Animals], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 3 [Angel], pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 4 [Angel], pencil and wash


Box 7 Folder 5 [Angel and stamped portrait of Corso]


Box 7 Folder 6 [Angel with trumpet], charcoal sketch


Box 7 Folder 7 [Birds], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 8 [Birds], pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 9 [Black and red design], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 10 [Black, red, and green sketch], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 11 [Branch and ivory seal], pen and ink

(signed Nunzio)


Box 7 Folder 12 A China Man and Family, pen and ink



Box 14-E-6 Cityscape [Athenian Agora?], oil on wood



Box 7 Folder 13 [Collage], 1974


Box 7 Folder 14 Contemporary Glyph, ink sketch



Mapcase 14-E-6 [Cowboy and Horse], ink sketch



Box 7 Folder 15 Cunt with Testicles, pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 16 [Demonic signature], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 17 [Design], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 18 [Eagle], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 19 [Face], ballpoint pen


Box 7 Folder 20 to 21 [Face], pen and ink; (2 Folders)


Box 7 Folder 22 [Face and plant], pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 23 [Face in brown ink], ink wash)


Box 7 Folder 24 A Good Boy!, pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 25 Harry Smith, pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 26 [Head of Christ], crayon drawing


Box 7 Folder 27 Judy Chicago, pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 28 [Man and duck], pen and ink on cocktail napkin


Box 7 Folder 29 [Mechanical design], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 30 Milton, pencil sketch


Box 7 [Musician], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 31 to 32 [Nine figures], pen and ink; (2 Folders)


Box 7 Folder 33 On a Cave Wall at Trois Freres Shaman with Antler Headgear, ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 34 Onomatopoeia, pencil sketch


Box 7 Folder 35 Percy B. Shelley, pen and ink



Box 14-E-6 Portrait of A. Ginsberg, Salem, MA, 1973, oil on canvas board



Box 7 Folder 36 Portrait of Peggy Biderman, pencil drawing


Box 7 Folder 37 The Rebel, pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 38 [Renaissance prince], pencil and pastel


Box 7 Folder 39 [Seal], sketch



Box 14-E-6 [Self-portrait], ink sketch



Box 7 Folder 40 Self-portrait, 1962


Box 7 Folder 41 [Seven figures] Milan, 1965


Box 7 Folder 42 [Six figures], pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 43 [Sketches on graph paper], 1977

(inscribed to Peggy Biderman)


Box 7 Folder 44 The Sorrow of Saturn, ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 45 Spring Ram and Lamb, pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 46 [Stylized figure], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 47 [Three figures], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 48 [Three Figures] and [Four Knights in Armor], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 49 To the Most Beautiful Pegasus, pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 50 [Tree Stump], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 51 [Trees and sun] and [Face]


Box 7 Folder 52 [Two figures and a cat]


Box 7 Folder 53 [Two figures holding the world]


Box 7 Folder 54 [Two figures in one], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 55 [Untitled], paint on paper


Box 7 Folder 56 [Vase, flowers and books], ink sketch


Box 7 Folder 57 Weeping Spring, pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 58 Where Did Everyone Go?, pen and ink


Box 7 Folder 59 Wilde, ink sketch



Box 8 Folder 1 Miscellaneous Drawings



Box 14-E-6 Painting of Gregory Corso-- by G. Waldas, 1954, oil on cardboard



Box 8 Folder 2 Sketch of Gregory Corso-- by Larry Rivers


Sketchbooks


Box 8 Folder 3 1968

(contains drawings and poetry)


Box 8 Folder 4 March, 1969

(contains drawings and paintings)


Box 8 Folder 5 to 6 Undated, (2 volumes)

(contains drawings and poetry)

Series V: Printed Material, 1958-1972

The printed material series includes editions of Corso's printed work, including work published in literary journals or magazines as well as anthologies and books of Corso's poetry in translation. Additionally, the series contains several books, journals, and independent literary magazines from Corso's collection including a large number that originally belonged to the San Francisco poet Lenore Kandel. These literary magazines are of particular interest to the researcher studying San Francisco's underground poetry scene in the 1950s and 1960s.


Anthologies



Box 9 Americans Today 1969

(contains "Spontaneous Requiem for the American Indian)


Box 9 New American Poetry Grove Press, 1960

(includes 11 poems by Corso)


Box 9 New Directions 1964


Box 9 Reflections on A Gift of Watermelon Pickle and Other Modern Verse 1966

(contains "Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway")


Box 9 War Poems (contains "The Winds of Babylon")


Books of Poetry


Box 9 Earth Egg and Unmuzzled Ox 2nd Edition, 1974

(two copies- one inscribed to Peggy Biderman)


Box 9 Elegiac Feelings American New Directions, 1970


Box 9 Gasoline Pocket Poets Series no. 8, City Lights,, 1958


Box 9 The Happy Birthday of Death New Directions, 1960


Box 9 Long Live Man New Directions, 1962


Translations


Box 9 Benzina

dual edition ofGasolinein both Italian and English


Box 9 Sl Mokre More

slightly abridged versions ofGasolineandHappy Birthday of Deathtranslated into Czech, 1964


Box 9 Zmrtvychvstanie Smrti

Czech language version ofHappy Birthday of DeathCzech version, 1963


Ephemeral Printed Materials



Box 8 Folder 7 Miscellaneous, 1962-1967 and undated, 1962-1967, undated

(includes reviews, pamphlets, literary magazines and ephemera)


Box 8 Folder 8 Metropolitan Review 1971 December 14


Box 8 Folder 9 Recipes (Tufts University Literary Magazine), 1972

(contains Corso poem "By Your Wish)


Literary Journals



Box 9 The Archive Spring, 1971

(contains "Poem")


Box 9 Big Table 1, Spring, 1959

(contains the complete contents of the suppressed Winter 1959Chicago Reviewas well as three poems by Gregory Corso)


Box 9 City Lights Journal no. 3, 1966

(contains "Mutation of the Spirit")


Box 9 Jeopardy: A Magazine of Creative Arts Spring, 1968


Box 9 Northwest Review Fall, 1963


Books from Corso's Library


Books


Box 9 Folder 10 The Dark Kingdom Kenneth Patchen, 1942


Box 9 Fertig, 1966

(inscribed to Lenore Kandel and Bill Fritz)


Box 9 For Julessa Bill Bathurst, 1967

(inscribed to Corso)


Box 9 I Want You Wild and Leap Ron Forbes and Irene Baker,, 1961


Box 9 The Road to Oblivion: Poem as a Scenario, Louis W. Roddewig, 1966, 1968, 1966, 1968

(inscribed to Lenore Kandel)


Box 9 Square Sun Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet and Sour Essays, 1967

(inscribed to Lenore Kandel and William Fritz)


Box 9 Star River Myron Ruderman, 1968

(inscribed to Lenore Kandel)


Box 9 Takuboku: Poems to Eat, Selected Tanka


Box 9 Taylor Mead: Excerpts from the Anonymous Diary of a New York Youth, 1961

(inscribed to Lenore Kandel)


Box 9 Ubu Roi Alfred Jarry, 1961


Journals and Literary Magazines


Box 9 Balls (inscribed to Bill Fritz and Lenore Kandel by Robert Branaman)


Box 9 The Black Cat November, 1907


Box 9 Contact: The San Francisco Journal of New Writing, Art and Ideas no. 1, 1958


Box 9 Dedicated to All Who Helped


Box 9 The Floating Bear Newsletter, 1964

(edited by Diane Di Prima)


Box 9 The Founding Pig, Aymon de Roussy de Sales

(inscribed to Corso)


Box 9 Nexus: The San Francisco Literary Magazine, vol. 2 no.5, October, 1965


Box 9 Notes from Underground no. 11, 1966


Box 9 Or no. 1, 1966


Box 9 Out of Sight: A Magazine of Literature vol. 1 no. 1,, 1966

(inscribed to Lenore Kandel from editor Gino Clays)


Box 9 Residu vol. 1 no. 1. Spring, 1965


Box 9 Sun no. 3, 1961


Box 9 The, no. 2


Box 9 Untitled Literary Magazine


Box 9 Yeah no. 5, 1962


Box 9 Zeitgeist vol. II no. 4, 1969

Series VI: Sound Recordings, 1966, Undated

Unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are available onsite via links in the container list. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized. Email rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

The sound recordings series is comprised of 5 reels of audio tape containing readings by Corso as well as his associates such as Ezra Pound, Lenore Kandel, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, and Michael McClure. Digital access copies are available at the library.



Box 8 Corso and Ezra Pound reading at Spoleto, 1966 July 16 (2 reels), 1966 July 16


Box 8 Grogan, Ginsberg, Kesey McClure, etc.


Lenore Kandel reading "Poem for Perverts"