Here for your delectation is theSPECTACULAR & RARE------------------LONG LIVE MAN by Gregory Corso.Corso's probably the most criminally underrated poet of his time, especially considering how much today's teenagers hold the rest of the Beats (a label that made Corso a bit uncomfortable), Kerouac and Ginsberg especially, in awe. Oh well, genius is usually ignored or misunderstood. His style, ranging from the purest of aphorism to the wildest celebration of language's infinite flexibility (he even breaks it a few times!) is never forced; it only serves to inundate the reader with the power of one of the last Romantic souls. A study in contradictions--terse yet lyrical, death-obsessed yet wildly hopeful, grittily simple yet bathed in references-- Corso was truly unique. Long Live Man is the book that, along with Happy Birthday of Death, ties for best claim to being the man's masterpiece. Written over a series of years of travel, from Greece to Tangiers to Paris to the rest of Europe to New York, this collection chronicles his emotional trials and triumphs from monument to monument, little town to little town, acquaintance to acquaintance. Throughout this time of physical uprooting, Corso is going through a great deal of emotional turmoil. The omnipresence of death and the sense that everything will come to naught press down upon him, but he fights back with that all-consuming love of life that even outdoes the "Carpe Diem" poems of the Roman Horace for sheer vivacity. He flings image after image, experience after experience after experience, at Death, God, Love, Despair, (hu)Man(ity), and ends up with a celebration of all that is worthwhile in life, set against the chilly background of impermanence and death. He binds all of that to his alternately aphoristic and linguistically wild style to make art that will last forever in the reader's mind. NOT TO BE MISSED!!! ALSO AFABULOUS COLLECTIBLE!!HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This is the OVERSIZED softcover statedNEW DIRECTIONS Edition from 1962.Other than cover creasing,the book is in excellent reading condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc.---and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe. So buy now for this magnificent, impossible-to-findPOETRY COLLECTIBLE.ALL OF MY LISTINGS ARE BETTER THAN AN product!! IF YOUSEEK OUTINCENTIVES LIKE FREE SHIPPING-------- YOU'VE GOT IT!!! PLUS---CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO PAY!!!! IF THE LISTED PRICE IS A BIT OUT OF YOUR PRICE RANGE, CHECK BEST OFFER AND STATE THE REASONABLEPRICEYOU WOULD LIKE TO PAY---CHANCES ARETHE ITEM WILL BE YOURS--IMMEDIATELY!! (Sometimes I even accept unreasonable offers!) DON'T JUST BROWSE!!! THIS IS THE ITEM YOU SEARCHED FOR---AND IT COULD BE YOURS FOR THE PRICE YOU WOULD LIKE!! NO WAITING FOR AN product TO END----AND NO DEAL LIKE THIS ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET!!!! _______________________________________________________________________________________WANT TOSEE MORE LIKE THIS??FOR EXTRA-SPECIAL SAVINGSGO TOBARRYS BARGAIN BIN (CLICK HERE--)forBOOKS THOUSANDS OFUNIQUE TITLES (no duplication) ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY FIRST EDITIONS ! +MUSICIN ALL GENRES AND FORMATS(lps, 45s, 78s, and cassettes)+ASSORTED RARE CURIOSITIESEVERYTHING(except death and taxes) IS NEGOTIABLE!MAKE ME AN OFFER I CAN'T REFUSE!! (NO HORSE'S HEAD IN THE BED, PLEASE!)ALLREASONABLE OFFERS WILL BE ACCEPTED!!!(EVEN THE OCCASIONAL UNREASONABLE OFFER)Be sure to add me to your favorites list111112
