Elise Cowen | |
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 Elise Cowen (right) with Allen Ginsberg | |
| Born | Elise Nada Cowen July 31, 1933 Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Died | February 27, 1962 (aged 28) Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, writer |
| Alma mater | Barnard College |
| Literary movement | Beat literature |
Elise Nada Cowen (July 31, 1933 – February 27, 1962[1]) was an American poet. She was part of the Beat generation, and was close to Allen Ginsberg, one of the movement's leading figures.
- ^ Trigilio, Tony, ed. Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments. Boise, ID: Ahsahta Press, 2014, p. 165. Cowen's date of birth also appears in the contributor's note for her posthumous poems published in the Fall 1964 issue of the literary journal Things. For the date of her death, see Elise Cowen: Poems and Fragments, p. xiv, and also the brief report, "Woman Found Dead," in the New York World-Telegram and Sun (27 Feb. 1962), p. 2.