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Hart was born in Delta, Colorado and moved to San Francisco in the 1920s.
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Lawrence Hart
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He died, aged 95, on 13 May 1996 in Greenbrae, California. The May 1951 edition of Poetry magazine was guest-edited by Hart and devoted to the work of the Activist Group, whose approach he defined as follows: "Each phrase, each unit of poetic notation, was to be written so that it would have esthetic excitement in itself, even detached from the poem." Poetry carried a half-issue "Activist Sequel" in November 1958, with a further "Note on the Activists" by Hart. In the following year, Hart stirred controversy by writing critically of the contemporary San Francisco Renaissance.
