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James Koller (May 30, 1936 – December 10, 2014) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He spent his early life in northern Illinois, and the 1960s on the Pacific Coast. In the early-1970s he moved to Maine, where he lived until his death while traveling across the US. Koller is the author of more than thirty books of poetry. He has also published three novels and numerous essays. His writing has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, German and Swedish. He began performing his work in the US in 1959, and starting in the late-1970s appeared widely in western Europe, often accompanied by others, notably the late Swiss poet and artist Franco Beltrametti, the German poet Stefan Hyner and the folk musician Governor Clay. He was publisher of Coyote Books and Coyote's Journal since 1964. Many of his Beat, Black Mountain and San Francisco contemporaries (Ed Dorn, Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Joanne Kyger, Allen Ginsberg) have appeared in these publications.
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30 May 1936 Oak Park, Illinois
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10 December 2014 (aged 78) Joplin, Missouri
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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