List of anarchist poets
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This is a list of anarchists poets, examples of their published work, and the source material in which their poetry is found.
An anarchist is a person who rejects any form of compulsory government (cf. "state") and supports its elimination. Anarchism can be summarised as the belief that all forms of rulership are undesirable and should be abolished.
This list is biased in favor of poets who have self-identified as anarchists. Poets who are popularly considered "anarchic", but have not specifically self-identified as anarchists, are not included.
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- Hugo Ball
- Fanya Baron
- Toma Bebić
- Julian Beck (1925–1985): American actor and founder of The Living Theatre.[1]
- Jens Bjørneboe
- Tony Blackplait
- Luther Blissett (nom de plume)
- Raegan Butcher
[edit] C
- John Cage (1912–1992): American composer. Collections of poetry include Anarchy (1988). [2]
- Monty Cantsin
- Lev Chernyi
- Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912): American activist and one of the earliest anarchists without adjectives. Works include the poem Bastard Born, and The Worm Turns (1900), a collection of poetry. [3]
- Arthur Cravan
- Miloš Crnjanski
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[edit] E
- David Edelstadt (1866–1892): Russian anarchist poet of the Yiddish language.[4] Works include Albert Parsons and Louis Lingg.
- Jon Elia
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[edit] H
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[edit] K
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[edit] M
- Jackson MacLow
- John Henry Mackay(1864–1933): German individualist anarchist, philosopher, writer, homosexual, and exponent of Max Steiner. Works of poetry include Anarchy. [5]
- Nestor Makhno (1888–1934): Ukrainian anarcho-communist, military strategist, and commander of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine.[6] Works of poetry include Summons.[7]
- Erich Mühsam
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[edit] P
- Kenneth Patchen
- Benjamin Péret
- Utah Phillips
- Pi O (П О)
- Eugène Edine Pottier
- Gonzalez Prada
- Diane di Prima
[edit] R
- Dachine Rainer
- Herbert Read (1893–1968): English poet and critic of literature and art. Works include "A Song for the Spanish Anarchists[8], The Death of Kropotkin, and Poetry & Anarchism (1938)[9]
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Lola Ridge
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Penny Rimbaud
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[edit] T
[edit] W
[edit] See also
- Anarchism and the arts
- Fraye Arbeter Shtime
- Parser: New Poetry and Poetics, a journal of anarchist poetry and poetics
[edit] Footnotes and citations
- ^ Beck, Julian, "Preface to The Brig", A Spotlight Dramabook.
- ^ Cage self-identified as an anarchist in a 1985 interview: "I'm an anarchist. I don't know whether the adjective is pure and simple, or philosophical, or what, but I don't like government! And I don't like institutions! And I don't have any confidence in even good institutions." John Cage at Seventy: An Interview by Stephen Montague. American Music, Summer 1985. Ubu.com. Accessed May 24, 2007.
- ^ de Cleyre, Voltairine (1914), "The Making of an Anarchist", Selected Writings of Voltairine de Cleyre, Mother Earth Publishing.
- ^ “A great poet and one of the finest types of Anarchist that ever lived.” - Emma Goldman, Edelstadt, David, 1866-1892, A short biography of Russian-Jewish anarchist and editor David Edelstadt.
- ^ "I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will; Not rule, & also ruled I will not be!"–John Henry Mackay, exerpt from Anarchy. John Henry Mackay entry in The Anarchist Encyclopedia. recollectionbooks.com Retrieved October 6, 2007
- ^ "As a revolutionary anarchist, I shared the life of the Ukrainian people during the revolution." Makhno, Nestor "The ABC of The Revolutionary Anarchist", The Struggle Against the State and other essays. Translated by Paul Sharkey.
- ^ Summons Makhno, Nestor. libcom.org Retrieved October 11, 2007.
- ^ Thirty-five Poems (1940)
- ^ Herbert Read first expressed his anarchist philosophy in Anarchy & Order (1938), and later in The Philosophy of Anarchism (1940), and My Anarchism (1966).
