SOURCE: “Gregory Corso: A Poet, the Beat Way,” in A Casebook on the Beat, edited by Thomas Parkinson, University of California Press, 1961, pp. 266–75.

In the following essay, Gaiser praises Corso's inner sense of form and imagination, which, she states, raises his work above the quality of other Beat writers.

On East Second Street where the Puerto Rican children are haunting the sidewalks looking for lost jelly beans, in a fourth floor walk-up apartment, Gregory Corso can usually be found whenever he's in New York or America. This tiny four-room, smoky-walled, ill-lit apartment belongs to Allen Ginsberg who shares it with a quieter Peter Orlovsky, and an occasional cat but absolutely no telephone. Anyone who wants to get in touch with them quickly must resort to Western Union and piles of opened telegrams are scattered about the kitchen which is the most lived-in room in the apartment. There is...