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Jackson Mac Low

American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright (1922-2004) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 82

Jackson Mac Low was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practitioner 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.

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Awards

Wallace Stevens Award1999
Guggenheim Fellowship

About this person

He was married to the artist Iris Lezak from 1962 to 1978, and to the poet Anne Tardos from 1990 until his death.

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1922 to 2004 · aged 82

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