Poetic Obituaries: [Kell Robertson] fell in with San Francisco's

North Beach scene in the 1950s and '60s, and he published a mimeograph poetry magazine called Desperado in the '60s.

"I would say Kell Robertson is one fine cowboy-poet, worth a dozen New Yorker poetasters," poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti once declared. "Let them listen and hear the voice of the real America out there."

Said [Joanie] MacCallum: "I think he should be remembered as a major American poet. To him, poetry was a job. And he did it with relish."

from The New Mexican: Kell Robertson, 1930-2011: Cowboy-poet celebrated 'guns, guitars and women'

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