Background
Jack Micheline was born on November 6, 1929 in New York City, New York, United States, as Harold Martin Silver. He was the son of Herman, a mechanic and postman, and Helen (Michelin) Silver.
Jack Micheline
Jack Micheline
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It is an important publication and one of Micheline's finest, representing a great variety of Micheline's body of work, and includes many unique photos and graphics of "Beat Generation" writers.
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1997
Jack Micheline was born on November 6, 1929 in New York City, New York, United States, as Harold Martin Silver. He was the son of Herman, a mechanic and postman, and Helen (Michelin) Silver.
Jack's first travel to Israel, in 1949, brought him to the Negev where he worked on a Kibbutz. In 1954 he began creating and publishing work and soon moved to Greenwich Village. In 1957, he published his first book River of Red Wine.
Micheline began painting in earnest, working primarily with gouache in a self-taught, primitive style, during a trip to Mexico City financed by Franz KIine in 1960. In 1969 he began self-publishing books in limited editions to as many as 100. These were usually hand-bound in folders held together by staples and mimeographed at the local copy store.
His most recent publication was Sixty-seven Poems for Downtrodden Saints, published in 1997 and republished as a second edition in 1999 with many additional poems, photos and images that did not appear in the first edition.
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1997Throughout his adult life, Jack joined liberal causes and criticized the oppressive elements of government that enforced censorship or tacitly accepted racism.
Jack Micheline was most influenced as a painter by the renowned abstract expressionist, Franz Kline. He identified with the disenfranchised and downtrodden encountered in his travels and learned to love the sounds of jazz and the liberation of painting and poetry. His work possesses a natural rhythm and rhyme which connects with an audience whom has little interest in, and contact with, the arts.
Quotes from others about the person
Gerald Nicosia: "[Micheline found] a new conception of the poet as a peripatetic witness, whose job it was to discover beauty beneath the various lies with which men had masked it and to record everything he saw."
Jack Micheline was married twice, to Patricia Cherkin and to Marian Elizabeth Redding. He had a son - Vincent.