Happy Birthday of Death
Happy Birthday of Death It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much to other and older…
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Happy Birthday of Death
It is true that he has been one of the inner circle of the 'Beats' from the first, but many admirers of his poetry feel that it belongs quite as much to other and older traditions in world literature. Another is that ancient pre-occupation of poets--the sense of the immediacy of death. One of these is the revival of pure poetry whenever an "original"--be it Rimbaud or Whitman--has broken with current verse conventions to give free rein to the magic of language.
It is, perhaps, his central theme, on which variations ranging from the terrible to the comic are sounded. Like Villon or Dylan Thomas, Corso lives close to the mystery of death. But Corso is seldom macabre.
A bursting vitality always carries him back to the sensations of the living, though always it is the reality behind the obvious which has caught his eye. "How I love to probe life," Corso has written, "That's what poetry is