Walter Lowenfels | Biography

Walter Lowenfels, poet, journalist, and anthologist, was in the vanguard of nearly every liberal political and artistic movement from his early years in Paris until his death some forty years later. Two years after his arrival in Paris in 1926, he met Michael Fraenkel, with whom he founded the Carrefour Press in 1930, and by the time he returned to New York in 1934 his books has been published by both Carrefour and Nancy Cunard's Hours Press in Paris and Heinemann in London. What is more, his poetry had won him a reputation as one of the most promising young expatriate poets in Paris. Later a left-wing political activist, he was persecuted in the McCarthy era of the fifties but was admired as an avant-garde poet in the sixties. Although Lowenfels believed that art should inspire social change, his poetry cannot be construed as political propaganda; rather, it expresses his...
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