Philip Whalen
Philip Whalen is an American poet born on October 20th, 1923 with Portland, in the Oregon, and died on June 26th, 2002 with San Francisco. It belongs to the Beat generation.
After having taken part in the Second world war, Philip Whalen enters to the Reed College where it meets the happy poet Gary Snyder and Lew Welch with which it binds friendship in 1951. Four years later, on October 13rd, 1955, it belongs to the famous reading of the Six Gallery where Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Philip Lamantia, and Michael McClure reads their works in front of a boosted public.
Enthusiastic follower of the zen Buddhism, Philip Whalen is ordered monk (Unsui) in 1973.
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