SOURCE: “Awakener to the World,” in American Book Review, Vol. 12, No. 4, September 1990, pp. 17, 27, 29.

In the following review, Barone cites Mindfield as an excellent means to discover or rediscover the spontaneous and thought-provoking voice of Corso.

In one of the two brief forewords to Mindfield Allen Ginsberg calls Corso an “awakener of youth.” Corso, along with Brautigan and some kindred souls, was the awakener to the word, to the muse in my life. I worked as a landscaper (I cut the grass) in a cemetery. I would recite lines from Corso's most anthologized poem, “Marriage”: “Should I get married? Should I be good? / Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustus hood? / Don't take her to movies but to cemeteries … take her in my arms lean against an old crooked tombstone / and woo her the entire night the constellations in the sky.” My brother actually did...