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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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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