Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet, edited by Leon Horton and Michele McDannold is reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan
“The pressure of fame mixed with a hidden yet inherent shyness drove poet Gregory Corso to adopt a bad-boy persona, fueled by a heroin habit he never could kick and only resisted with the steady aid of alcohol. Unsure of his ability to meet the high expectations held by his audience, Corso remained until the end the louche raconteur of the Beats. Yet contributors to Gregory Corso: Ten Times a Poet make it clear that despite Corso’s personal faults and endless antics, his undeniably impish charm and sharp intellect readily won them over.”
Zack Kopp gives us the lowdown on She Throws Herself Forward to Stop the Fall by Dave Newman
“Dave Newman’s writing was once described as a “deranged cross between Charles Bukowski and William Wordsworth”—derivative of neither while equally evocative of both, and drawing “strength from both traditions” (Tears in the Fence, March 2014). Newman’s work has also been compared to Denis Johnson’s famed 1992 collection Jesus’ Son. His latest collection, She Throws Herself Forward to Stop the Fall, shows Newman holding steady among the rank of American authors who represent contemporary fiction’s latest upheavals of convention.”
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