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Rod McKuen, poet and songwriter, dies aged 81

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One of the best-selling poets in history, the prolific force in popular culture captivated those who did not ordinarily like poetry

Rod McKuen, the husky-voiced “King of Kitsch” whose music, verse and spoken-word recordings in the 1960s and 1970s won him an Oscar nomination and made him one of the best-selling poets in history, has died. He was 81.

McKuen died on Thursday morning at a rehabilitation center in Beverly Hills, California, where he had been treated for pneumonia and had been ill for several weeks. He had been unable to digest food, said his half brother, Edward McKuen Habib.

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