Harold Norse, last of the beat poets, dies at 93.(IN MEMORIAM)(Obituary)

The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | September 1, 2009| | Copyright

HAROLD NORSE, whose iconoclastic poetry explored gay sexuality and identity and earned both wide critical acclaim and a large, enduring popular following, died of natural causes on Monday, June 8, 2009, in San Francisco, just one month before his 93rd birthday.

Born as Harold Rosen in 1916, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to an illiterate, unwed mother, he later rearranged the letters of his original surname to produce Norse, the name he used during a prolific, international literary career that spanned seventy years. His collected poems, In the Hub of the Fiery Force, was ...

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