December 31, 1930 [Baltimore, Maryland] – March 29, 2002 [Los Angeles, California]
Those was primarily associated with Venice, where he lived for most of his adult life after hitchhiking across the country to California after reading Lipton’s Holy Barbarians. He is the curious case of an incredibly talented poet who wrote very infrequently, at least early in his career, and indeed often resorted to just republishing the same set of poems in succeeding editions of work. Parts of a long prose poem, Patagonia, appeared in the 1983 volume Abandoned Latitudes (along with writing by Paul Vangelisti and Robert Crosson), though that work itself—which is a mix between fantastic travelogue with more than a few hints of Bataille—appears to be unfinished. He died shortly after entering prison on a charge of having molested his daughter in the 1970s.
