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  2. Japan's 'beat poet' Kazuko Shiraishi, pioneer of modern ... - AOL

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    Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beatpoetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth ...

  3. Jack Gilbert - Wikipedia

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    Jack Gilbert (February 18, 1925 – November 13, 2012) was an American poet. Gilbert was acquainted with Jack Spicer and Allen Ginsberg, both prominent figureheads of the Beat Movement, but is not considered a Beat Poet; he described himself as a "serious romantic." [1] [2] Over his five-decade-long career, he published five full collections of ...

  4. Lew Welch - Wikipedia

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    Lewis Barrett Welch Jr. (August 16, 1926 – c. May 23, 1971) was an American poet associated with the Beat generation literary movement. Welch published and performed widely during the 1960s. He taught a poetry workshop as part of the University of California Extension in San Francisco, from 1965 to 1970.

  5. Albert Saijo - Wikipedia

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    Albert Fairchild Saijo (February 4, 1926 – June 2, 2011) was a Japanese-American poet associated with the Beat Generation.He and his family were imprisoned as part of the United States government's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, during which time he wrote editorials on his experiences of internment for his high school newspaper.

  6. Japan's 'beat poet' Kazuko Shiraishi, pioneer of modern ...

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    TOKYO (AP) — Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beatpoetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth dubbed “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan,” died of heart failure on June 14, Shichosha, a Tokyo publisher ...

  7. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Helped Launch the Beat ... - AOL

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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet and political activist who helped launch the Beat movement, died from interstitial lung disease at his home in San Francisco on Monday, his daughter Julie Sasse ...

  8. Gregory Corso - Wikipedia

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    In contrast to Corso's use of marriage as a synecdoche for a Beat view of women, postmodern feminist poet Hedwig Gorski chronicles a night with Corso in her poem "Could not get Gregory Corso out of my Car" (1985, Austin, Texas) showing the womanizing typical for heterosexual Beat behavior. [21]

  9. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat poet charged with obscenity for ...

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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the acclaimed Beat movement champion, poet and publisher who owned the iconic City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, has died at age 101.