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Biography
Born in Denver and raised in Twin Falls, Idaho, poet, editor, and essayist Robin Blaser was educated at the University of California-Berkeley. With poets Robert Duncan and Jack Spicer, he helped spark the Berkeley Poetry Renaissance in the 1940s that preceded the San Francisco poetry renaissance of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965, Blaser met Robert Creeley and Charles Olson, with whom he later worked closely. Miriam Nichols, editor of Blaser's collected poems, writes of Blaser in The Literary Encyclopedia, “An immigrant to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1966, and a Canadian citizen [as of] 1972, Blaser … established himself as a key figure on the west coast of B.C. and an important influence among Canadian experimental poets such as George Bowering, Steve McCaffery, bp Nichol, Erin Mouré, and Daphne Marlatt.”
He edited The Collected Books of Jack Spicer (1975), George Bowering's Particular Accidents: Selected Poems (1980), and Louis Dudek's Infinite Worlds: The Poetry of Louis Dudek (1988). Blaser also published numerous essays and translations, and in 2000 his libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's The Last Supper, an opera in response to the AIDS epidemic, premiered in Berlin.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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