Robert Creeley dies

From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:

Robert Creeley, the American postmodern poet associated with the Beat generation, has died at the age of 78.

Creeley, regarded as one of the leading poets in the U.S., died Wednesday of pneumonia and complications of lung disease at a hospital in Odessa, Tex. He was in the midst of a two-month literary residency at a school in Marfa, Tex., when he fell ill.

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