Title: A clown in a grave
First published: 1999
Description: "Using a number of critical approaches, Michael Skau examines Gregory Corso's complex imagination, his humor, and his poetic techniques in dealing with America, the Beat generation, and death."--BOOK JACKET.

"Skau covers the complete works of Corso, one of the four major Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs) who attempted to provide an alternative to what they saw as the academic forms of literature dominating American writing through the 1940s and 1950s."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Beat generation, Criticism and interpretation, Beats (persons), American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century
People: Gregory Corso
LC classification: PS3505.O763 Z87 1999