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ELAN POETRY GROUP (ECUADOR)
ELAN POETRY GROUP (ECUADOR) A group of Ecuadorian poets born between 1905 and 1920, the Elan poetry movement, headed by Ignacio Lasso (1911-1943), were experimental writers devoted to the inner self,...
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Yves Bonnefoy (France) 1923-2016
Yves Bonnefoy (France)1923-2016One of the important French poets of post-World War II, Yves Bonnefoy was born in Tours in 1923. He studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Poitiers and...
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E. E. Cummings (USA) 1894-1962
E. E. Cummings (USA)1894-1962 Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894, E. E. Cummings was the son of a Harvard professor and minister. At the early age of eight, Cummings—encouraged by his family to...
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"Fractures of Self" | essay by Douglas Messerli [on David Antin's Radical...
FRACTURES OF SELFby Douglas Messerli David Antin Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art and Literature, 1966 to 2005(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011) One of the first things anyone...
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Hagiwara Sakutarō (Japan) 1886-1942
Hagiwara Sakutarō (Japan)1886-1942 Born into a wealthy family, Hagiwara was able as a young man to devote himself to poetry. Although he did not finish college, he read Western authors, including Poe,...
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Nanni Cagnone (Italy) 1939
Nanni Cagnone (Italy)1939 Born in Carcare, in the province of Liguria, Italy in 1939. His first book of poetry was What’s Hecuba to Him or He to Hecuba? published in English by Out of London Press in...
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Paul Braffort (France) 1923-2018
Paul Braffort (France)1923-2018 Paul Braffort was born December 5, 1923 in Paris. His parents both worked for Western Union, and when he was a child his father became a canvasser for the Great Northern...
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Pierre Joris (b. Luxembourg / lives USA) 1946
Pierre Joris (b. Luxembourg/lives USA)1946 Pierre Joris left Luxembourg at eighteen and has since lived in the USA, Great Britain, North Africa and France. In 1992 he returned to the Mid-Hudson valley...
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Helen Adam (b. Scotland / USA) 1909-1993
Helen Adam (b. Scotland/USA)1909-1993 Born in Scotland in 1909, Helen Adam is best known for her poetry exploring the ballad tradition. She wrote in traditional forms, but mixed the archaic language of...
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"A Space of Poetry: Interview with Douglas Messerli" | interview by Martin...
"A Space of Poetry: Interview with Douglas Messerli" | interview by Martin Nakell [link] https://jacket2.org/commentary/messerli-nakell
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Mark Insingel (Belgium / writes in Dutch) 1935
Mark Insingel (Belgium / writes in Dutch)1935 Born in 1935, poet Mark Insingel debuted in 1963 with a collection Drijfhout(Driftwood). From the beginning he wrote in an experimental style that yet...
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Leland Hickman (USA) 1934-1991
Leland Hickman (USA)1934-1991 Leland Hickman was born on September 15, 1934 in Santa Barbara, California. He moved with his family to Bakersfield, living on a farm in Carpinteria, and, ultimately...
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Alfred Kreymborg (USA) 1883-1966
Alfred Kreymborg (USA)1883-1966 Alfred Kreymborg was born in 1883 in New York City, the son of a cigar-store owner. The last of five children, Alfred was educated in public schools on the east side of...
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Miguel Hernández (Spain) 1910-1942
Miguel Hernández (Spain)1910-1942 Born into a peasant family in Orihuela in southeastern Spain, Miguel Hernández spent much of his youth as a goatherd and other farming tasks. But as young boy...
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João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil) 1920-1999
João Cabral de Melo Neto (Brazil)1920-1999 Born in Recife, Brazil in 1920, Melo Neto is the acknowledged leader of the Brazilian poets of his generation. His early work was a reaction, in part, to the...
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Valentine de Saint-Point (France) 1875-1953
Valentine de Saint-Point (France)1875-1953 Although little is known in the United States of her career, French poet, novelist, dramatist, and aesthetician Valentine de Saint-Point published extensively...
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Jacques Rabemananjara (Madagascar) 1913-2005
Jacques Rabemananjara (Madagascar)1913-2005 Born in town on the Bay of Antongil, in Madagascar of June 23, 1913, Rabemananjara was traditionally educated by his grandfather—a member of the...
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Céline Arnauld (b. Romania / France) 1885-1952
Céline Arnauld (b. Romania/France)1885-1952 Celine Arnauld with Surrealist poetsCéline Arnauld was born Carolina...
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Frigyes Karinthy (Hungary) 1887-1938
Frigyes Karinthy (Hungary)1887-1938 Frigyes Karinthy was a prolific writers of short stories, poetry, plays, and essays. But he is best known as a humorist and satirist, the author of sequels to...
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Walter Arensberg (USA) 1878-1954
Louis and Walter Arnesberg with friend Marcel Duchamp writers involved with the magazine OthersFront row, L-R: Alison Hartpence, Afred Kreymborg, WCW, Skip Cannell; Back row, L-R: Jean Crotti, Marcel...
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