The Poem Human (A Biography of Gregory Corso)
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Product Details
Author:
Kurt Hemmer
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
480
Publisher:
Rare Bird Books (March 16, 2027)
Imprint:
Rare Bird Books
Release Date:
March 16, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781644285756
ISBN-10:
1644285754
Weight:
24.29oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
File:
Eloquence-SimonSchuster_06032026_P10163223_onix30_Complete-20260603.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$40.00
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
12
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$30.80
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P-SS
Discount Code:
A
Overview
Gregory Corso was not born a poet—he made himself one.
Abandoned by his mother, raised in foster homes, and hardened by reform schools and prison, Nunzio Corso seemed destined to disappear into the machinery of the state. Instead, he reinvented himself as Gregory Corso—one of the most singular voices of the Beat Generation and the author of poems that would help redefine American poetry.
In The Poem Human, Kurt Hemmer offers the most searching and authoritative biography of Corso to date. Drawing on prison records, foster-care files, court documents, letters, interviews, and firsthand encounters, Hemmer traces Corso’s transformation from an illiterate teenage thief into a poet whose work fused humor, terror, lyric beauty, and metaphysical ambition. Rather than smoothing over Corso’s contradictions, Hemmer places them at the center of the story, revealing how instability, reinvention, and mythmaking became the engine of Corso’s art.
Moving beyond Beat legend and caricature, The Poem Human shows Corso not merely as a member of a movement, but as a self-created figure—someone who understood that poetry and poet were inseparable. This is not just the life of a writer, but the story of a human being who became a poem.
Abandoned by his mother, raised in foster homes, and hardened by reform schools and prison, Nunzio Corso seemed destined to disappear into the machinery of the state. Instead, he reinvented himself as Gregory Corso—one of the most singular voices of the Beat Generation and the author of poems that would help redefine American poetry.
In The Poem Human, Kurt Hemmer offers the most searching and authoritative biography of Corso to date. Drawing on prison records, foster-care files, court documents, letters, interviews, and firsthand encounters, Hemmer traces Corso’s transformation from an illiterate teenage thief into a poet whose work fused humor, terror, lyric beauty, and metaphysical ambition. Rather than smoothing over Corso’s contradictions, Hemmer places them at the center of the story, revealing how instability, reinvention, and mythmaking became the engine of Corso’s art.
Moving beyond Beat legend and caricature, The Poem Human shows Corso not merely as a member of a movement, but as a self-created figure—someone who understood that poetry and poet were inseparable. This is not just the life of a writer, but the story of a human being who became a poem.
