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Michael McClure

American Beat poet and playwright whose play The Beard carried a foreword by Mailer (67.23).

Michael McClure, the American Beat poet and playwright, wrote the play The Beard — its imagined meeting in eternity of Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid — for which Mailer supplied a 182-word foreword (67.23) in the Coyote/City Lights edition.

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Last updated: 2026-05-30