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Like his college roommate Gary Snyder,
Philip Whalen took both poetry and Zen seriously. He became friends with
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and
Michael McClure, and played a key role in the explosive poetic revolution of the ’50s and ’60s. Celebrated for his wisdom and good humor, Whalen transformed the poem for a generation. His writing, taken as a whole, forms a monumental stream of consciousness (or, as Whalen calls it, “continuous nerve movie”) of a wild, deeply read, and fiercely independent Americanone who refuses to belong, who celebrates and glorifies the small beauties to be found everywhere he looks. This long-awaited
Selected Poems is a welcome opportunity to hear his influential voice again.
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