Elegiac Feelings American: Poetry

by Gregory Corso

Gregory Corso's collection of poems contains works of major proportions. The title poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac, fusing a memorial to the poet's dead friend with a bitter lament for the present state of America. The second major work, "The Geometric Poem," published previously in a limited edition by Fernanda Pivano in Italy, is a complex visionary restatement of themes from ancient Egyptian religion. Reproduced in facsimile from Corso's handwritten...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811200264
• ISBN13: 9780811200264
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"