Gregory Corso papers, 1949-1996

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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