About Pete Winslow
Lived 1934 – 1972 (aged 37–38). Pete Winslow was an American poet.
Pete Winslow (1934–1972) was an American surrealist poet associated with the Beat Generation.
He was born on 19 October 1934 in Washington state. He died in September 1972 of complications following surgery and was survived by his wife Jane Winslow and son, Peter Winslow, who died in a car accident in 1993.
He graduated from the University of Washington in journalism in 1956.
His last book, Daisy in the Memory of a Shark, was published posthumously by City Lights Books in 1973.
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American poet
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