The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

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more than forty-five books of poetry and prose,

at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).

He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five

He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years.

brought to the United States at the age of three.

and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet.

best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose

the beautiful young girls
the criminals and the killers
the lonely mad
the factory workers,
this machine here,
the radio playing,

if you knew how good it felt you would forgive me
because we both know how fickle happiness can be.