Naropa lectures, 1981
By: Gregory Corso ; William Camponovo, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, and Öykü Tekten, editors ; preface by Anne Waldman
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 6, number 1, Spring 2016; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- ser. 6, no. 1
Publisher: Center for the Humanities, the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780988894570
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Poetry
Work titles: Works
Description: "While many readers will be familiar with Gregory Corso as a youthful Beat icon, only those exposed to his teaching at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University will know of his eclectic, idiosyncratic, and vast storehouse of cultural knowledge. Naropa Lectures 1981 features transcriptions of two Corso classes in which his quicksilver mind moves across ages of human endeavor, from the discovery of the earliest hominid to the founding of medieval universities, as students’ dialogue, question, challenge, and absorb. In this dynamic presentation by editors William Camponovo, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, and Öykü Tekten, readers can finally gain entry into the legendary Corso classroom. A remembrance of Gregory Corso by Anne Waldman, one of the founders of the Kerouac School, is included."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/03/2016).
Notes: Transcripts of two of eight lectures delivered by Gregory Corso at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in the Summer of 1981.

"This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment of the Arts and the the Leslie Scalapino--O Books Fund."--title page verso.

"Gregory Corso (1930-2001) was born of teenage parents in New York City where he grew up in the Greenwich Village that would come to symbolize the Beat movement that he formed such an integral part of. In and out of foster homes, sometimes homeless, Corso began his education in prison and went on to study the cultures of the world in his own unique way, traveling and living abroad while writing poetry, letters, and newly discovered journals and plays. He is buried in Rome, close to the graves of his heroes Keats and Shelley. Corso’s books include Vestal Lady on Brattle (1954), Gasoline (1958), The Happy Birthday of Death (1960), The American Express (1961), Long Live Man (1962), Elegiac Feelings American (1970), Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit (1981), and Mindfield: New and Selected Poems (1989)."--Publisher's website (viewed 01/03/2016).

As issued, saddle-stitched in dark teal paper; in prefab case, 28 cm.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 :; title: Professore Corso: preface  -- Anne Waldman; title: Foreword  -- William Camponovo, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, Öykü Tekten; title: Lecture I of XIII (July 1, 1981) -- Gregory Corso ;; title: Part 2 :; title: Lecture XIII of XIII (August 8, 1981)  -- Gregory Corso; title: Vade mecum: a guide to the lectures --; title: Afterword  -- William Camponovo, Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, Öykü Tekten; title: Biographical notes --; title: Acknowledgments.