Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Philip Whalen
Born: October 20, 1923
Died: June 26, 2002 (aged 78)
Bio: Philip Glenn Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and close to the Beat generation.
Known for:
- Overtime: Selected Poems (1999)
- Canoeing up Cabarga Creek (1996)
- Like I Say: Poems (1960)
- Lady Susan the Watsons
- On Bear's Head (1969)
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