Copyright 1960 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Despite his patriotism, he felt that the American Dream had morphed into a monster, which he dubbed the American Way, and he was deeply concerned about the nation's trajectory. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. He makes this conclusion by knowing that in many countries, America is known to be the "promise land." Gregory Nunzio Corso was an American poet, youngest of the inner circle of Beat Generation writers (with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs). His fat His mother, sixteen years old when Gregory was delivered, abandoned the family a year later and returned to Italy. 1 I am a great American I am almost nationalistic about it .
Yet Corso does not completely … Page 1 Gregory Corso, in full Gregory Nunzio Corso, (born March 26, 1930, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 17, 2001, Robbinsdale, Minnesota), American poet, a … In the poem he castigates not only those who abuse their power, but also the willing masses who follow blindly. Afterwards, Corso spent most of his childhood in orphanages and foster homes. Poems by Gregory Corso. Gregory Corso was a key member of the Beat movement, a group of convention-breaking writers who were credited with sparking much of the social and political change that transformed the United States in the 1960s. He was beloved by the other "Beats".
People may have built America but now it is running on its own beginnings. Gregory Corso, “1959” from The Happy Birthday of Death. In one point of the poem Corso writes, "The American Way that sad mad process is not run by any one man or organization It is a monster born of itself existing of its self." In spite of being written fifty years ago "The American Way" remains relevant today. 1: The American Way poem by Gregory Corso.