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An accidental autobiography : the selected letters of Gregory Corso

When the idea of a book of selected letters was first proposed, Gregory [Corso] had some reservations about it. Would the book reveal too much of his private life? But the with typical hubris he said the equivalent of let it all hang out and all does hang out in An Accidental Autobiography. The book is indeed the next thing to an unplanned self-portrait and gives a lively sense of the life Gregory Corso led, marching to his own drummer and leaving in his wake such marvelous books of Beat poetry as The Happy Birthday of Death, Elegiac Feelings American, Long Live Man, and Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit. --New Directions.

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