Jackson Mac Low
Sign in to saveAmerican poet, performance artist, composer and playwright (1922–2004)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1922-09-12
- Died
- 2004-12-08
- Works
- 28
Top works
- August light poems
- Pronouns
- The Complete Light Poems
- 22 light poems
- 23rd light poem for Larry Eigner
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 454
- Total plays
- 2,414
Tags
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Jackson Mac Low (September 12, 1922 – December 8, 2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jackson+Mac+Low">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Key dates
- Born
- 12 September 1922
- Died
- 8 December 2004
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jackson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- playwright
- Educated at
- Brooklyn College
- Employer
- New York University
- Languages spoken
- English language