Gregory Corso: Doubting Thomist

by Kirby Olson

Gregory Corso is the most intensely spiritual of the Beat generation poets and still by far the least explored. The virtue of Kirby Olson's Gregory Corso: Doubting Thomist is that it is the first book to place all of Corso's work in a philosophical perspective, concentrating on Corso as a poet torn between a static Catholic Thomist viewpoint and that of a progressive surrealist.

While Corso is a subject of great controversy--his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809324474
• ISBN13: 9780809324477
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"