biography
pronunciation:
[emens]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1924–71)
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| biography:
| Poet and art historian, born in Rotterdam, W Netherlands. A co-founder of the literary magazine Tirade, he published his first essay in Criterium, a literary magazine in the Forum tradition. In his poems, essays, and aphorisms, he displayed a biting relativism as a means of escaping his existence: fear and aggression are important themes in his work. By means of intellectualism, irony, and self-mockery he tried to come to terms with his own vulnerability. Together with Herzberg and Kopland, he was classified as a so-called Tirade poet, denoting their use of plain language in free verse. He committed suicide in 1971. |
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