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