Gregory Corso

Gregory Corso was born in 1930 in Greenwich Village, in New York, to a sixteen-year-old Italian mother who abandoned him. He spent his childhood in at least five foster families, slept in the subway, and knew the Tombs prison and then Bellevue Hospital. Sentenced to sixteen or seventeen years depending on the sources, he served his term at Clinton prison, in Dannemora, where he read dictionaries and discovered poetry. He met Allen Ginsberg in 1950 in a Village bar, attended classes at Harvard without being enrolled, then lived in Paris. He died in Minnesota in 2001 and lies in Rome, at the foot of Shelley's grave.

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