Long Live Man by Gregory Corso. New Directions, $1.60.
Guarded by Women by Robert Pack. Random House, $3.50.
A Harlot’s Hire by Allen Grossman. Boar’s Head, $1.45.
I prefer, like Solomon, a live dog to a dead lion, and that may well exhaust my wisdom concerning Mr. Corso. He is approaching the christological age, the fatal age l’an trentiesme de son age—but at least no square stanzas to celebrate the fact. The most he will do to recognize his condition is to give us even more bravado, to expand rather than retrench, to go to Greece and become Childe Corso among the Ruins or to Italy and speak to St. Francis in the strange and spendthrift “al tongue” he has made for himself:
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