About
American poet associated with The San Francisco Renaissance and known for A Book of Prophecies, Kidnap Notes Next, and other works. He was a 1985 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Before fame
He attended Boston College and Black Mountain College.
Trivia
He published The Hotel Wentley Poems when he was just twenty-four years old.
Family life
He was born and raised in Massachusetts and lived in Boston, San Francisco, and New York during his adult life.
Associated with
He was a contemporary of Ron Padgett.
