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Philip Whalen


Born
in Portland, OR, The United States
October 20, 1923

Died
June 26, 2002

Genre
Poetry


Librarian Note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.

Philip Whalen was born in Portland, Oregon on October 20, 1923. He roomed with future poets Gary Snyder and Lew Welch at Reed College in Oregon.

Whalen did not pursue a career in poetry, but fell into it after Snyder asked him to take part in the famous Six Gallery poetry reading in 1955. A good portrait of Whalen, Snyder's slightly older and chubbier Zen-poet friend, appears in 'The Dharma Bums' by Jack Kerouac (the character's name is Warren Coughlin).

Like Snyder and Kerouac, Whalen took Buddhism very seriously, and also like them he found spiritual enlightenment as a fire lookout in the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest. Whalen published many h ...more

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The Collected Poems of Phil...
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Overtime: Selected Poems
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On Bear's Head
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Scenes of Life at the Capital
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Canoeing Up Cabarga Creek: ...
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Off the Wall: Interviews wi...
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Severance Pay: Poems, 1967-...
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The Kindness Of Strangers: ...
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Heavy Breathing: Poems, 196...
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