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Basil Bunting (England) 1900-1985
Basil Bunting (England)1900-1985Born on March 1, 1900 into a Quaker family living in Scotswood-on-Tyne, Northumberland, Basil Bunting studied at the Quaker school in Yorkshire, Ackworth School and in...
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Horácio Costa (Brazil) 1954
Horácio Costa (Brazil)1954Born in São Paulo in 1954, Costa pursued his studies in Brazil and the United States. He earned a B.A. degree from the University of São Paulo in 1978 and an M.A. degree from...
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Keith Waldrop (USA) 1932
Keith Waldrop (USA)1932 Born in Emporia, Kansas on December 11, 1932, Keith Waldrop entered the Kansas State Teachers College as a pre-med student, studies were interrupted by his being drafted in...
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"Maghrebian Surrealism" | essay and manifesto by Habib Tengour [link]
To read Habib Tengour's essay "Maghrebian Surrealism" [Essay and Manifesto] click below:http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2010/09/habib-tengour-maghrebian-surrealism.html
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"Ruppert M. Loydell Interview" | by Jeffrey Side [link]
For an interview in The Argotist by Jeffrey Side of British poet Ruppert M. Loydell, click here:https://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Loydell%20interview.htm
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"Tony Lopez Interview" | by Scott Thurston [link]
For and interview with British poet Tony Lopez by Scott Thurston, go here: https://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Lopez%20interview.htm
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"Questions of Accent (What Is Then Accented Writing?)" | essay by Murat...
To read Murat Nemet-Nejat's essay from "Questions of Accent" (What Is Then Accented Writing?) click below:http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2012/11/murat-nemet-nejat-from-questions-of.html
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Nazik al-Mala'ka (Iraq) 1922-2007
Nazik al-Mala'ka (Iraq)1922-2007 One of the most influential of all Arab women writers, Nazik al-Mala'ka was born in 1922 to a cultured Baghdad family. Her mother was a poet (writing under the name of...
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"Shout Your Names" | obituary essay by Stefan Weidner (on the death of Said)...
For an obituary essay on the Iranian-born German poet Said, go here: https://en.qantara.de/content/obituary-iranian-german-poet-said-shout-your-names
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"I Have Defended My Piety against the Islamic Republic" | interview with Said...
An interview with Iranian-born German poet Said with Eren Güvercin here: https://en.qantara.de/content/interview-with-the-poet-said-i-have-defended-my-piety-against-the-islamic-republic
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Said (b. Iran / Germany) 1947-2021
Said [b. Iran/Germany]1947-2021Born in Teheran in 1947, Said left his home country at the age of 17 and has been living in Munich since. After the Shah was toppled in 1979, Said returned briefly to...
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Mostafa Nissabouri (Morocco) 1943
Mostafa Nissabouri (Morocco)1943Born in Casablaca, Morocco in 1943, Mostafa Nissabouri is a poet and short story writer. Although he began university studies, he had to abandon them for employment....
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"It Is a City" | poem by Mostafa Nissabouri (translated by Addie Leak) [link]
Translation of Mostafa Nissabouri's "It Is a City" by Addie Leak, go here to Drunken Boat: https://d7.drunkenboat.com/db21/translation/addie-leak-translating-mostafa-nissabouri
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Dieter M. Gräf (Germany) 1960
Dieter M. Gräf [Germany]1960 Dieter Gräf was born in 1960 in Ludwigshafen and now lives in Cologne. His first book of poetry, Rauschstudie: Vater + Sohnwas published in 1994, and he followed that with...
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"Statement on Poetry" | by Douglas Messerli (Messerli's 1980 response to Tom...
statement on poetryIn 1980 I was asked by Tom Beckett to make a statement about my poetic writing. It seems amazing to me no that I was so readily willi)ng to do so—but this is often the case with the...
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Henri Deluy (France) 1931-2021
Henri Deluy (France)1931-2021Born in Marseille on April 25, 1931, Henri Deluy published his first collection of poetry at the age of 17, and since then has dedicated his life to poetry, founding the...
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"Poem for Henri Deluy ("the silence no body had ever given") | by Douglas...
For a poem by Douglas Messerli on the occasion of Henri Deluy's death, go here:https://jacket2.org/commentary/deluy-messerli Eric Giraud (left), Liliane Giraudon, Jean-Jacques Viton (May 24,1933–March...
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Kito Lorenc [Christoph Lorenz] (DDR / now Germany / writes in Sorbic) 1938-2017
Kito Lorenc [Christoph Lorenz] (DDR / now Germany / writes in Sorbic)1938-2017Born in Schleife (Slepo) Germany on March 4, 1938, Kito Lorenc was the grandson of the noted Sorbian prose writer, Jackub...
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"Rowing Up Through the Silence" | essay by Douglas Messerli (essay on...
rowing up through the silenceby Douglas Messerli Although I’ve never met Tomas Tranströmer nor his wife Monika “in the flesh,” my life seems oddly intertwined with theirs. For years I had heard in...
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"The Rhythms of the 'Language' Poets" | essay by Douglas Messerli (on works...
Beginning with my 1980 essay on Charles Bernstein’s Controlling Interests (see My Year 2004: Under Our Skin), I focused a number of essays and reviews on what was then referred to as “Language”...
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