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Nancy Peters

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The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of those poets.
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Carol Ness, "Beat Poet Gregory Corso, 70, Dies of Cancer", San Francisco Chronicle, 2001-01-18. : On Gregory Corso.

 
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