As an editor I got to know certain graduates of the prison system. Gregory Corso, the poet, was imprisoned for robbing a gas station. The judge was angry...
emily harvey: a life in fluxus By Matthew Rose In one of the last conversations I had with Emily Harvey she talked about salt. "I'm still fighting the salt,...
Michael, I heard that it was a department store that Gregory robbed. This would have been in about 1944. Were there gas stations in NYC at that time? I...
Gas stations in Greenwich Village where Gregory Corso grew up have been converted to boutiques and, in one case, a garden gazebo. I seem to remember Gregory...
Emily Harvey seemed to get along very well with men, although she never payed any attention to me. Our last conversation concerned -- Matthew Rose. I loved her...
hi Michael, The photograph on the front page is wonderful. It reminds me slightly of a "real" ethnographic photo I found recently, and which I just posted in...
Poet, born in New York City. He spent three years in prison as a juvenile, then worked as a manual labourer, reporter, and merchant seaman (1950-53). Based in...
Michael, Did you know Corso much after the 74 interviews? Also, I have an extra copy of my book on Corso. If you want one, send me your snail mail address. I...
Fluxus doesn't get a lot of coverage in the hinterlands. Yoko Ono, yes, but not Fluxus generally. There is a poet named Mike Topp who lives in NYC around...
Jackson Maclow was involved with Fluxus as were several NYC composers like George Maciunas John Cage and performance artist Dick higgins--also I think Ray...
My dear friend Sharon Gilbert died yesterday. Sharon illustrated with Colette the most recent Unmuzzled OX, a translation by W.H. Auden of Carlo Goldoni's...
Today, according to Butler's Lives of the Saints, is the feast of the founder of the Albertines. Albert was canonized by John Paul II; he also wrote a play...
A.M. Fine was a gay activist avant le fait. I happened to be in an outdoor cafe c. 1972, and Al Hansen, Beck's grand dad, was at another table. I greatly...
about fluxus fuchs us, the less said to the letter the better. of which there was but one begetter. later. On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:34:17 -0000 mandreox...
George Macuinas, the Lithuanian artist, first used the term "Fluxus" in 1961 on an invitation to some lectures at Gallery A/G in New York. Jonas Mekas founder...
Unmuzzled OX published Gregory Corso's book Earth Egg. It's a history of the world. Today I came across a Latin proverb: All that lives comes from the egg;...
Is it really a history of the earth? I'm getting deeper and deeper into Corso. Somebody wrote an anecdote yesterday to my compilation and he said that Corso...
Perhaps `creation myth' might be a better characterization of Earth Egg than `history of the world.' Anyway, it's not about poultry. For anyone who hasn't seen...
Michael, do you also have copies of Corso's novel American Express? I heard you had reprinted it and then Gregory wanted it off the market. What on earth was...
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ellen 'windy' lytle
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Jun 25, 2005 4:27 pm
michael, hi, all members do is email through you? ok that's easy but what about the web site? elle [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
I think when you joined, Ellen, you were probably given a choice between visiting the website at will or receiving each message as posted. I think you selected...
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Jun 27, 2005 9:06 pm
michael, it baffles me- i saw web iste ( ilike it) but what's next? let me know- elle ... From: "mandreox" <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> To:...
When the Internet goes to Hell, it really goes to Hell. Kirby Olson has an interesting ezine, RealPoetik. Two weeks ago, he was collecting one- line poems....
Dear Michael, Like Jesus if in only this one respect I've resurrected. Basically what happened on the Real Poetik list is that somehow I left in the magical...
Gregory Corso was a junkie but James Dickey was a liar. Dickey was also an alcoholic, but I've known lots of alcoholic writers. My first father- in-law, for...
In many ways Corso comes off comparatively clean when you compare him to a lot of other poets whose sly evil slowly seeps to the surface. When I was in...
If you had 60,000 dolllars a year and a family of four could you live comfortably somewhere with 30 miles of NYC? Given that sum, what and where would you...
Clinton Hill Brooklyn--near Pratt University--an up and coming neighborhood very suitable for a family where the rent for a two-bedroom place with space and...
