- New York City Beats
- Howl and Other Poems
- Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict
- Naked Lunch
- On the Road
- The First Third and Other Writings
- Go
- Bomb
- "Let Us Inspect the Lyre"
- "Let Us Inspect the Lyre"
- Huncke's Journal
- "The Entrance of The Grand Gladiola"
- This Kind of Bird Flies Backward
- Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
Gregory Corso spent his early life in and out of foster homes. At the age of twelve he began living on the streets of New York, sleeping in the subway or in abandoned cars. He was sent to Clinton State Prison at the age of sixteen for robbing a Household Finance Office, and there he began educating himself in the prison library. Released at the age of twenty, Corso moved back to New York where he met Allen Ginsberg at the lesbian bar, The Pony Stable. Ginsberg was impressed with Corso's poetry and excited to meet another authentic street person. Always the promoter of his friends' literary efforts, Ginsberg introduced Corso to the Beat crowd and helped get his poems published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights Books.