Background
Hartkorn, Albert W. was born on October 17, 1932 in New York City. Son of Albert William and Veronica (Ward) Hartkorn.
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As a true master of pattern Hartkorn is also a master at free verse - not that formlessness which seems no more than limping prose but that magic music of true free verse, which seems in effect to have invented its own pattern. Reading his free verse one is never interrupted by such irrelevant wonderings as to why a line ends here rather than there; one knows that it ends at just the right place. Nor has he forgotten that music and meaning, sound and sense, are required in free verse as well as in patterned.
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Hartkorn, Albert W. was born on October 17, 1932 in New York City. Son of Albert William and Veronica (Ward) Hartkorn.
Graduate electronics, United States Navy Electronic School, 1952; Bachelor in English, IONA, 1957; student, University Hartford, 1963; student, Miami Dade Community College, Miami Beach, Florida, 1987-1989.
Positions in safety and marketing, various organizations, 1957-1966; independent consultant, American Multilert Corporation, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 1966-1976; senior life safety specialist, section manager, DeLeuw Cather & Company, Washington, 1977-1981; senior project engineer, Raymond Kaiser Engineers, Miami, 1981-1984; system safety supervisor, Miami Dade Transit Agency, Miami, 1984-1994; president, Transit Safety Consulting Superior vena cava syndrome, Miami Beach, since 1990.
( Hiroshima Testament is a book of interrelated poems w...)
(As a true master of pattern Hartkorn is also a master at ...)
(Albert Hartkorn here explores the events surrounding Hiro...)
President Stafford (Virginia) County Environmental Association, 1978-1980. Poll worker local candidate, Miami Beach, 1997. With Unisource Energy Corporation, 1951-1954.
Married Dolores Elizabeth Henry, June 6, 1956 (divorced October 1985). Children: Clare, Albert, Valerie, Soren, Garrison, Giles. Married Christene Bernadette Grant, October 17, 1990.