I recall Corso as one of the City Lights Poets along
with Ferlinghetti and some other stuff I forgot.

The only poem I remember by him was called "Bald"
the first line of which was:

"My hair is dead!"

As to the rennaisance, I've been waiting for that my whole life.

Just recently I was talking with someone about revolution poets.
I thought of and mentioned The Last Poets who, as a group, were
a major influence on early rap music and are referred to by
name on the "Thank you" section of one of the Public Enemy
albums by Dr. Dre. I was surprised to find it is available
on cd and so, after a mail to the request line at the public
library, they now own a copy of "When The Revolution Comes"
"This is Madness" and the other items on the first Last Poets.

As to the Beats, the best Beat for me was and is Ken Nordine--
famous for his Word Jazz recitations and recordings first heard
on Chicago radio. Nordine who is a radio personality was more
famous for being the voice of Folger's Coffee. But his
recording techniques have been widely copied by the advertising
business for radio. If you heard the originals you would know
and recognize these techniques immediately.

Oh yeah, and Stan Freberg. Stan Freberg saw the inherent
humor in the over-seriousness of the Beat Movement and
made fun of it mercilessly. I guess if, as Kerouac said,
that Beat meant worn out and worn down as in 'beat up',
then Freberg in his humor was the anti-beat, the Upbeat.

lon

• Ken Nordine stuff