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Azem Shkreli
Azem Shkreli [Yugoslavia / Kosova]1938-1997Azem Khkreli was born on February 10, 1938, in the village of Shkreli in the Rugova highlands near Peja in western Kosova. He lost his mother when he was only...
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Josef Mayer-Limberg
Josef Mayer-Limberg [Austria]1911-1992 Born in Limbert in Upper Austria in 1911, Josef Mayer-Limberg moved in Vienna in 1929, making the capitol city his home. There he studied history, art history,...
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Sigfús Daðason
Sigfús Daðason [Iceland]1928-1996Sigfús Daðason is often spoken of in his homeland of Iceland as having changed the poetic outlook of Icelandic poetry. He published his first book of poety, Ljóð in...
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THE ATOM POETS (Iceland)The Atom Poets consisted of a group of Icelandic poets, writing during the 1940s and 1950s who had broken with traditional forms. The term was taken from a novel by Icelandic...
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Gerhard Rühm
Gerhard Rühm [Austria]1930 Born in Vienna in 1930, Gerhard Rühm was originally aligned with the Vienna Group, joining poets H. C. Artmann and Friedrich Achleitner in one the group’s most important...
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Antônio Moura
Antônio Moura [Brazil]1964 Born in Belém, Brazil, in the Para State of the Amazon rain forest, Antônio Moura makes his living as an advertising writer, traveling between Belém and São Paulo. He has...
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Ulrike Draesner
Ulrike Draesner [Germany]1962 Born in Munich in 1962, Ulrike Draesner now lives in Berlin. She attending the University of Munich and went on to Oxford, earning a Ph.D. with a dissertation on Wolfram’s...
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Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau [France]1903-1976The only son of Auguste Queneau and Joséphine Mignot, Raymond Queneau was born in Le Havre on February 21, 1903. He received his B.A. in 1919 for Latin and Greek, and a...
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Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert (France)1900-1977 Born at Neuilly-sur-Seine on February 4, 1900, Jacques Prévert grew up in Paris. After receiving his primary education, he left school to work at the major French...
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Marcel and Gabriel Piqueray
Marcel and Gabriel Piqueray [Belgium]1920-1997 / 1920-1992The twin brothers, Marcel and Gabriel Piqueray were born on March 2, 1920, a signed all of their work under the joint signature. However, as...
View Articleessay "The Dilemma of Being High and Dry" by Helmut Heissenbüttel
“The Dilemma of Being High and Dry”by Helmut Heissenbüttela man’s high and dry and doesn’t give up hope of spotting land that’s the dilemma he’s in but he doesn’t like his cousin the water-colorist...
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Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian [USA]1941Poet Lyn Hejinian, a fifth generation Californian, was born on May 17, 1941 at a Naval Hospital in Alameda, California. Her father, Chaffee Earl Hall Jr., at the time was a high...
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Ed Dorn
Ed Dorn [USA]1929-1999 Ed Dorn was born, Edward Merton Dorn, on April 2, 1929 in Villa Grove, Illinois. Growing up during the Great Depression, Dorn and his family lived in poverty, he attending a...
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Jean Méttellus
Jean Méttellus [Haiti/lives France]1937 Born in 1937 in Jacmel, Haiti (the home town of many poets, including René Depestre, his senior by eleven years), Jean Méttellus has been a resident of France...
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Clément Pansaers
Clément Pansaers [Belgium]1885-1922 Born on May 1, 1885 in Neerwinden, Belgium, the Francophone Belgian writer, Clément Pansaers was the major—and some argue, the only—true proponent of Dada poetry in...
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W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden [England/USA]1907-1973Born on February 21, 1907 in York, Wystan Hugh Auden grew up in a professional middle-class family near Birmingham. His father, George Augustus Auden, was a physician,...
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Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein (DDR/now Germany)1962 Born in Dresden, after World War II part of the German Democratic Republic, Durs Grübein came into the limelight with his first volume of 1988, Grauzone Morgens....
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Elke Erb
Elke Erb [DDR/Germany]1938Elke Erb was born on February 18, 1938 in Scherbad/Eifel, in what was then East Berlin. Her father was the literary scholar Ewald Erb. As a young woman Erb studied German and...
View ArticleText "Schematic Development of Tradition" by Helmut Heissenbüttel
Schematic Development of TraditionBy Helmut Heissenbüttelthere were more of those who weren’t there than of those who were always there are more of those who aren’t there than of those who arethis is...
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AMERICAN VALUESby Douglas MesserliDouglas Messerli, ed. The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century, Volume 4 (Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2003)In this, the fourth volume of my ongoing series...
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