[New-Poetry] Ferrini of Gloucester

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http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_361094026?keyword=topstory

Published: December 27, 2007 12:00 am????????? 

Poet Ferrini, 'the conscience of Gloucester,' dies at 94

By Richard Gaines , Staff writer
Gloucester Daily Times


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Vincent Ferrini, Gloucester's poet laureate and a figure renowned in literary and local circles for his radical, political, economic and social opinions of America and enduring passion for things authentic, especially his adopted city, died Monday. He was 94.

According to his daughter, Sheila Ferrini of Chelsea, the cause of death was a heart attack and pneumonia. He had resided at Den-Mar Nursing Home in Rockport since last May, after returning from a reading at Beyond Baroque Literary Art Center in Los Angeles.

"He was the conscience of Gloucester," said his friend, retiring Mayor John Bell. "He was the one who asked us to think about who we are."

"He was more alive than anyone I have ever met," said the painter and former city councilor, Joseph Kaknes.

"He was totally without inhibition," said his close friend, author Peter Anastas.

Together with his friend and ersatz sibling rival, Charles Olson, Ferrini demonstrated to the world that Gloucester was as fertile an environment for poets as it was for painters.


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