Hannah Weiner
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Hannah Weiner (November 4, 1928 - 1997) was an American poet who was a prominent member of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of poets.
Early Life and Writings
Weiner was born in Providence, Rhode Island and attended Radcliffe College, graduating with a B.A. in 1950. She began writing poetry in 1963 and published her first book, The Magritte Poems in 1966. In the late 1960s, she participated in a number of artistic events in New York, where she had been living for some time.
Mature Work
In the early 1970s, Weiner began writing a series of journals that were partly the result of her experiments with clairvoyant or automatic writing and partly a result of her schizophrenia. She influenced a number of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets and was included in the In the American Tree anthology. Her books include Clairvoyant Journal (1974), Little Books/Indians (1980), The Fast (1992), Silent Teachers Remembered Sequel (1994) and And We Speak Silent (1996).
External links
- Hannah Weiner at EPC (http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/weiner/)
- Hannah Weiner Papers (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0504a.html)
- Short Memoir by Charles Bernstein (http://jacketmagazine.com/12/wein-bern.html)