In the dim glow of a Manhattan flophouse, the once-bright flame of poet Maxwell Bodenheim's life was extinguished on the night of February 6, 1954. The 61-year-old White man, known in his heyday as the "King of Greenwich Village Bohemians," met a violent and tragic end far from the literary salons where he had once been celebrated. His final years were a portrait of decline, a slow descent into poverty and alcoholism that left him a specter haunting the same streets where he had once been a king
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