Gregory Corso discusses Jack Kerouac

The late Gregory Nunzio Corso an American poet, the fourth member of the canon of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs) discusses Jack Kerouac. Some good advise for young poets.

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[Croni Son]

Respond if you're a writer. We all write in our dreams, don't we? In our dreams, we write beautiful prose and poetry as quickley as we read; beyond spontaneously..am i right? Nothing is more frustrating than waking up and losing that poem. When we try to write this way while awake, we can't quite capture the spontaneous quality that we can while we dream; when we write without thinking. This man, Jack Kerouac, has done what we dream of doing. He writes without thought. He writes his dreams

[NAte Maxson]

corso SHOULD have been an icon to everyone the way he is to me at least!

[MEMATAELVIENTONORTE]

difficult to hear Corso speaking, after have readed The Subterraneans, I cannot avoid think in Kerouac's drama

[Oscar Sanchez]

Literally have no idea what I'm responding to but there are my thoughts.

[blissbite]

AMEN, DUDE! A-to the fucking-MEN!

[highnotes9]

Kerouac emphasised friendship, love of the land and the thrills of the new. Maybe Corso is right with the 3stage thing as JKs style went right to the top and back down again in glorious transcendencies.

[highnotes9]

Great character.. So funny

[Simon Dean]

Well said. U can learn to dream lucidly. Google it. Practice it and then do it. And then, do what Jack did buddy, but with your voice.

[10TenStrip]

Dylan, fine, but you can never say for sure about Morrison. He was only 27 when he died, for chrissakes (before anyone cites contrary 'examples;'you've done well on all your papers! Now crawl back underneath the bed). He might have been a fine poet. He was moving in that direction.

[Dan Stetzel]

I don't think any of you get it. Corso was a poet, Ginsberg, Ansolm, Ferlingetti, etc. They were poets. Dylan, Morrison, they were lyricists before they were poets. Their poetry would never have been well received if it weren't for their musical influence on pop culture.

[Poemsapennyeach]

The forlorn rags of growing old...

[1m2a3t4t5]

Bob Dylan is a great, incredible writer. The Beatles are music, Bob Dylan was a writer.