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Michel McClure, poet who helped define Beat generation, dies at 87
What a mood: Jack Kerouac, hearing Allen Ginsberg read “Howl” for the first time, “drinking from a jug of wine and shouting, ‘Go, go, go!’”
Link to tweet
San Francisco poet helped [inspire] 1960s rockers and wrote lyrics for Janis Joplin.