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Gregory Corso

American Beat poet who traveled with Kerouac, Ginsberg and Orlovsky before joining the experimental community around Burroughs at 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur.

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Illustrated portrait of William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

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Met · 1958

Corso belonged to the community of residents and collaborators surrounding Burroughs at the Beat Hotel.

— Naked Lunch: The First Fifty Years

Illustrated portrait of Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

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  • Poet

Met · 1956

Corso belonged to Kerouac's immediate Beat circle and traveled through Mexico City with Kerouac, Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky in 1956.

— Allen Ginsberg, Street cornerman's tintype, Alameda Park, Mexico City (1956); Pull My Daisy and The Sin of Jesus

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Met · 1958

William S. Burroughs

Corso belonged to the community of residents and collaborators surrounding Burroughs at the Beat Hotel.

— Naked Lunch: The First Fifty Years

Met · 1956

Jack Kerouac

Corso belonged to Kerouac's immediate Beat circle and traveled through Mexico City with Kerouac, Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky in 1956.

— Allen Ginsberg, Street cornerman's tintype, Alameda Park, Mexico City (1956); Pull My Daisy and The Sin of Jesus

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  1. 1Naked Lunch: The First Fifty Years

    Exhibition catalogue
    Columbia University Libraries
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    Catalogue scholarship used to verify attribution, provenance, chronology, and interpretive context for Gregory Corso.

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  2. 2Street cornerman's tintype, Alameda Park, Mexico City

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    National Gallery of Art, 1956
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  1. 3Pull My Daisy and The Sin of Jesus

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    The Museum of Modern Art
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  2. 4Gregory Corso

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    Poetry Foundation
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