The Golden Dot by Gregory Corso

Gregory Corso (1930-2001) was abandoned by his mother a month after his birth at St. Joseph's Hospital in New York City. New York's St. Vincent's Hospital. Corso was a juvenile criminal who spent time in Clinton Correctional Institution, in the cell just vacated by gangster Lucky Luciano, after growing up in foster care and on the streets of Little Italy. Corso, an aspiring poet, was taken under the wing of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and became the youngest member of the Beat Generation's inner circle, living and working with them in the Beat Hotel, a boarding house in Paris, in the late 1950s. Bomb, a poem comprised of typewritten strips of paper stacked in the shape of a mushroom cloud, became one of his signature works while he was there. Corso reconnected with his mother later in life and maintained a close relationship with her until his death.