The poet Michael McClure died at the age of 87. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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Beat Generation poet, author, and playwright known for Love Lion Book, The Beard, and other works. Also a journalist, he wrote for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications.
He was born in Kansas, and he later settled in California. With his wife Joanna, he had one daughter.