Gregory Corso

Reading at University of Connecticut, March 28, 1996

Complete Recording (56:37): MP3

1. Introduction (0:28): MP3
2. Corso on reading out loud (1:14): MP3
3. Corso on Homer (3:11): MP3
4. "Greenwich Village Suicide" (0:51): MP3
5. "Italian Extravaganza" (0:27): MP3
6. "Sea Chanty" (0:27): MP3
7. "Last Night I Drove a Car" (0:19): MP3
8. "The Mad Yak" (0:44): MP3
9. "I Am 25" (0:41): MP3
10. "The Last Gangster" (0:22): MP3
11. "Birthplace Revisited" (0:28): MP3
12. "On The Walls of a Dull Furnished Room" (0:21): MP3
13. "Notes After Blacking Out" (1:38): MP3
14. "Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway" (0:51): MP3
15. "Dream of a Baseball Star" (1:10): MP3
16. "The Whole Mess...Almost" (1:55): MP3
17. "People" (1:03): MP3
18. Corso's thoughts on the 20th Century (2:42): MP3
19. "When a Boy" (0:08): MP3
20. "Alchemical Poem" (0:07): MP3
21. "Proximity" (0:07): MP3
22. "Many Have Fallen" (0:36): MP3
23. "Inner/Outer Rhyme" (0:34): MP3
24. "Youthful Religious Experiences" (2:42): MP3
25. "Leaky Lifeboat Boys" (1:50): MP3
26. Corso on knowing yourself (1:59): MP3
27. Corso on Thomas Chatterton (1:39): MP3
28. Corso on being a poet (1:15): MP3
29. Corso on Dido and Aeneas and Percy Shelley (2:44): MP3

1. Introductory Discussion (3:58): MP3
2. Friends (1:55): MP3
3. Sea Journey (0:21): MP3
4. I Met a Guy Who Died (2:58): MP3
5. What the Child Sees (0:42): MP3
6. Earliest Memory (1:14): MP3
7. Wisdom (1:05): MP3
8. How Not to Die (1:41): MP3
9. Inner Outer Rhyme (0:58): MP3
10. My Youthful Religious Experiences (3:08): MP3
11. Arts Poetica (2:50): MP3
12. Q and A Session (7:42): MP3

Complete Reading (28:41): MP3

Herbert Huncke, John Wieners, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg Reading, New York City, December 6, 1992

Corso Poetry Reading (13:45): MP3

1. Corso introduces himself (1:35): MP3
2. "Proximity" (0:19): MP3
3. "Hi!" (2:08): MP3
4. "Sea Chanty" (0:28): MP3
5. "Italian Extravaganza" (0:33): MP3
6. "Birthplace Revisited" (0:30): MP3
7. "On the Walls of a Dull Furnished Room" (0:27): MP3
8. "The Last Gangster" (0:22): MP3
9. "Hello!" (0:45): MP3
10. "The Mad Yak" (0:35): MP3
11. "Last Night I Drove a Car" (0:18): MP3

Complete Reading (1:11:25): MP3

1. Discusson (1:30): MP3
2. The Whole Mess...Almost (2:13): MP3
3. Alchemy (0:29): MP3
4. For Lisa (0:07): MP3
5. Proximity (0:15): MP3
6. A Bed's Lament (0:42): MP3
7. A Chessman's Crime (3:57): MP3
8. Discussions during the booksigning and car ride back to NYC (26:33): MP3

Complete Reading (35:55): MP3

Part 1 (34:50): MP3

1. "Family" (0:54): MP3
2. Untitled (4:00): MP3
3. Untitled (3:11): MP3
4. Untitled (0:54): MP3
5. Untitled (1:28): MP3
6. Untitled (2:53): MP3
7. Untitled (0:48): MP3
8. Untitled (1:18): MP3
9. Untitled (0:09): MP3
10. The previous poem read again (0:10): MP3
11. "A Spontaneous Requiem for the American Indian" (13:05): MP3

Part 2 (46:03): MP3

1. Untitled (8:33): MP3
2. "Eleven Times A Poem" (11:40): MP3
3. "Last Night I Drove A Car" (0:17): MP3
4. "Birthplace Revisited" (0:28): MP3
5. "Italian Extravaganza" (0:21): MP3
6. "On the Walls of a Well-Furnished Room" (0:19): MP3
7. "Botticelli's Spring" (0:57): MP3
8. "Haiku" (0:04): MP3
9. "The Last Warmth of Arnold" (2:01): MP3
10. "Two Weird Happenings in Harlem" (0:26): MP3
11. "Sunrise" (0:58): MP3
12. "Sunset" (0:26): MP3
13. "I Met This Guy Who Died" (0:48): MP3
14. "Wisdom" (0:20): MP3
15. "Wisdom," read again (0:19): MP3
16. For his daughter, Miranda (0:05): MP3
17. "How Not To Die" (0:34): MP3
18. "Inner/Outer Rhyme" (0:14): MP3
19. "Youthful Religious Experiences" (2:39): MP3
20. "Verse" (1:31): MP3
21. "Proximity" (0:07): MP3
22. "Many Have Fallen" (0:34): MP3
23. "I Gave Away" (cut off) (0:38): MP3

Hanuman Presents! reading at the Poetry Project, New York May 18, 1984

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Reading from Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit at St. Mark's Poetry Project, February 11, 1981

Complete recording (39:50): MP3

Courtesy of Simon Pettet

Fundraiser Reading at Naropa University, August 16, 1978

Reading a Play at Naropa University, July 20, 1978

Marathon Reading at Naropa Univesity, August 16, 1977

Marathon Reading at Naropa University, July 6, 1977

Part 1 (1:58): MP3

1. "Discipline" (0:55): MP3
2. "The Whole Mess...Almost" (0:27): MP3

Part 2 (2:09): MP3

1. "Sea Shanty" (0:10): MP3
2. "The Whole Mess...Almost" (1:33): MP3

Reading at Naropa University, June 11, 1975

1. "Sea Shanty" (0:20): MP3
2. "The Last Warmth of Arnold" (interrupted) (0:54): MP3
3. "Amensia in Memphis" (1:27): MP3
4. "Puma in Chapultepec Zoo" (0:54): MP3
5. "On the Walls of a Dull Furnished Room" (0:23): MP3
6. "Italiano Extravaganza" (0:25): MP3
7. "Birthplace Revisited" (0:36): MP3
8. "The Last Gangster" (0:29): MP3
9. "The Mad Yak" (0:55): MP3
10. "Friend" (2:15): MP3
11. "Seed Journey" (0:26): MP3
12. "A Difference of Zoos" (0:56): MP3
13. "Man Entering the Sea, Tangier" (1:18): MP3
14. "Untitled" (1:16): MP3
15. "Second Night in New York After Three Years" (0:47): MP3
16. "Daybreak and the Night Goes On" (6:41): MP3

Complete Recording (13:44): MP3

1. Excerpt from "Italiano Extravaganza" (0:19): MP3
2. "Marriage" (8:02): MP3
3. "Eleven Times a Poem" (1:02): MP3
4. Corso explaining his zodiac birth chart (0:56): MP3
5. Corso on reading out loud (1:18): MP3

• In the Fleeting Hand of Time (2:47): MP3
• Vision of Rotterdam (1:51): MP3, Image of text
• The Last Warmth of Arnold (2:41): MP3
• Mexican Impressions (2:19): MP3
• Botticelli Spring (1:05): MP3
• Sun--A Spontaneous Poem (2:00): MP3
• Ode to Coit Tower (5:28): MP3
• I Am 25 (0:51): MP3

Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso at Harvard, 1959

• Part 1, Side A (30:41): MP3
• Part 1, Side B (34:07): MP3
• Part 2, Side A (30:45): MP3
• Part 2, Side B (13:10): MP3
• Part 3, Side A (27:44): MP3
• Part 3, Side B (31:46): MP3

Note: Part 1, Side B ends mid-sentence.

Courtesy of Simon Pettet

• Police (8:53): MP3

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