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A strict Catholic upbringing gave Gregory Corso a rich intellectual and spiritual heritage, but because he was put up for adoption at the age of six months, he was deprived of the ordinary emotional richness that family life provides. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Catholic Church, Gary Snyder, Michael Skau, Kenneth Burke, Middle Ages, Naropa Institute, Gregory Stephenson, Thomas Aquinas, Geometric Poem, Gilles Deleuze, Long Live Man, William Burroughs, Book of Genesis, Ezra Pound, Hermes Trismegistus, Pastoral Fetish, San Francisco, American Indian, Birth of Tragedy, Deliberate Prose, Georges Bataille, Jack Kerouac New!
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A strict Catholic upbringing gave Gregory Corso a rich intellectual and spiritual heritage, but because he was put up for adoption at the age of six months, he was deprived of the ordinary emotional richness that family life provides. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dreamed city, wandering look, intellectual beauty Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Catholic Church, Gary Snyder, Michael Skau, Kenneth Burke, Middle Ages, Naropa Institute, Gregory Stephenson, Thomas Aquinas, Geometric Poem, Gilles Deleuze, Long Live Man, William Burroughs, Book of Genesis, Ezra Pound, Hermes Trismegistus, Pastoral Fetish, San Francisco, American Indian, Birth of Tragedy, Deliberate Prose, Georges Bataille, Jack Kerouac New!
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- Long Live Man by Gregory Corso on 10 pages
- Happy Birthday of Death by G. Corso on 7 pages
- The Birth of Tragedy (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 6 pages
- Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995 by Allen Ginsberg on 5 pages
- Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit by Gregory Corso on 4 pages
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- Doctor Angelicus, Band 3 - 2003. by Elke Jahn in Back Matter
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