Poetry
In the late 1960s, McKuen began to publish books of poetry, earning a substantial following among young people with collections like Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows (1966), Listen to the Warm (1967), and Lonesome Cities (1968). His Lonesome Cities album of readings won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Recording in 1968. McKuen's poems were translated into eleven languages and his books sold over 1 million copies in 1968 alone. McKuen has said that his most romantic poetry was influenced by American poet Walter Benton's two books of poems.
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“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
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