An accidental autobiography : the selected letters of Gregory Corso / Gregory Corso ; edited with commentary and an introduction by Bill Morgan ; foreword by Patti Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corso, Gregory.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Morgan, Bill, 1949-

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corso, Gregory.

Beats (Persons).

Corso, Gregory--Correspondence.

Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence.

Poets, American.

Beats (Persons)--Correspondence.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Autobiographies.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions, 2003.

Summary:

What a lovely book! The cover is mad! A great cover, should scare even Boris Karloff; really great; thank you; so the bomb had to be else the cover wouldn't have been; the candle will always be -- all good, really a nice looking book, and how funny I felt seeing it, kind of proud and all that, and walked away from the American Express with a silly smile on my face; thanks too for check, I got them both together, and when I went to manager's office in Amer Express I showed him check and then came up an American tourist who interrupted us and thanked the manager for introducing his wife to some doctor because she was getting too knock-kneed or something, anyway the manager asked for proof if your publishing firm was a secure one, so I showed him the book, and the American said: "Wow! Get that title!" and I said "It's a happy book, really" and he looked at me kind of oddly and said to the manager "Well, at least he speaks English" and the manager promptly ok'd the check.

Contents:

The Letters 1.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-435) and index.

ISBN:

0811215350

OCLC:

50920695