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Artie Gold fonds
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CA RBD MSG 982
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1952-2007 (Creation)
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(1947-2007)
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Arthur (Artie) Mark Gold was born on January 14, 1947, in Brockville, Ontario.
He was a Canadian poet who rose to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the circle of Montreal-based writers known as The Vehicule Poets. Characterized as one of the wildest and most daring of the Vehicule poets, Gold was influenced by the work of Jack Spicer and Frank O'Hara, his cats (to whom he was allergic) and his myriad eclectic autodidact interests. Around 1977, Gold became one of the first poetry editors of Vehicule Press. Though plagued by illness throughout his life, he worked prolifically and was always less interested in fame or academic placement than he was in creating poetry "at the front of the arts." Gold was the author of eight collections of poems, e.g., "cityflowers" (1974), "Some of the Cat Poems" (1978), "The Beautiful Chemical Waltz" (1992), "Hotel Victoria" (2003), and "The Collected Books of Artie Gold" (2010).
He died on February 14, 2007, in Montreal, Quebec.
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Transferred from Artie Gold, materials taken from his Montreal apartment.
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Fonds consists chiefly of the literary papers of Canadian poet Artie Gold as well as some personal and professional correspondence. Many of his drawings are also included. Within the literary materials it contains poems and poem fragments, notebooks, manuscripts, proofs, and publications. The correspondence included is predominantly personal, many with other Canadian poems and literary figures, as well as some professional correspondence related to publication, poetry readings, grants, etc. There are some files of biographical material as well.
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