{"product_id":"herald-of-the-autochthonic-spirit-paperback","title":"Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory Corso\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory Corso is still kicking \"the ivory applecart of tyrannical values,\" heralding the wild and keenly experienced life. Since the 1950s, when with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and others, Corso electrified the literary establishment with what he describes as \"spontaneous subterranean poesy of the streets,\" he has fathered \"three fleshed angels,\" traveled through Europe and Egypt, seen the demise of several fellow \"Daddies of an Age,\" and now finds himself over half a century old.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lush, fervent oratory of Shelley is evident in these poems of one who may be his most ardent American heir, and the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Happy Birthday of Death\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eElegiac Feelings American\u003c\/em\u003e never entirely forgets that a \"leaky lifeboat\" is the mortal's only home. \"You'd think there would be chaos\/the futility of it all\/Yet children are born\/oft times spitting images of us\/ ... and the gift keeps on coming.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCorso knows death, despair, and silence only too well, and his first major collection in eleven years is permeated with a sense of crucial choices to be made. \"Columbia U Poesy Reading--1975\" begins with Beat history and ends with a solitary vision of God in the form of the muse: \"Seated on a cold park bench\/I heard her moan: 'O Gregorio Gregorio\/you'll fail me, I know\/Walking away\/a little old lady behind me was singing: True! True!'\/'Not so!'\/ rang the spirit, 'Not so!'\" In a cocky, exuberant blend of high style and down-home New Yorkese, the Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit brings more auspicious tidings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 64\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 7.99 x 5.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 1981\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45612741361708,"sku":"9780811208086","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/herald-of-the-autochthonic-spirit-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}