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Also Known As Gregory Nunzio Corso
Born March 26, 1930 • New York City • New York
Died January 17, 2001 (aged 70) • Minnesota
Notable Works “Gasoline” • “Mindfield” • “The Happy Birthday of Death”
Movement / Style Beat movement
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Gary Snyder
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Allen Ginsberg
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Diane di Prima
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Gilbert Sorrentino
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Philip Whalen
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Herman Melville
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William Faulkner
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“Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a kosmos”
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