Long Live Man
1962
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A book of poems by a renowned member of the Beat Generation's inner circle. Long live Man! sings the poet Gregory Corso―despite atom bombs and computers, cold wars that get hot and togetherness that isn’t, too many cars and too little love…and in these poems he celebrates the wonders (and the laughs and griefs) of being a man alive. Whether he is musing on antic glories amid the ruins of the Acropolis or watching a New York child invent games on the city’s sidewalks, Corso is there in it, putting us into it, with the magic of vision, with the senses―awakening images, that transmute reality into something more―insights that let us share his joy and echo his shout of Long live Man!
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Author
Gregory Corso
Author · 13 books
Gregory Nunzio Corso was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers.
