Background
Lowenfels, Walter was born on May 10, 1897 in New York City. Son of Frederick F. and Edith (Ahrens) Lowenfels.
Lowenfels, Walter was born on May 10, 1897 in New York City. Son of Frederick F. and Edith (Ahrens) Lowenfels.
Graduate Kelvin Preparatory School, New York City, 1914.
Author books of poetry: Episodes & Epistles, 1925. Finale of Seem, 1929. Apollinaire, 1930; Elegy for D. H. Lawrence, 1932.
The Suicide, 1934; Sonnets of Love and Liberty, 1955. American Voices, 1959. Song of Peace, 1959; Some Deaths, 1964.
Land of Roseberries, 1965. Found Poems, 1972; Translations from Scorpius, 1966. Thou Shalt Not Overkill, 1968.
Author prose books: To an Imaginary Daughter, 1964. Robert Grover’s The Portable Walter, 1968. The Poetry of My Politics, 1968.
The Life of Fraenkel’s Death, 1970. The Revolution Is to Be Human, 1973. Reality Prime, 1974; Love Letters, 1976.
Editor: Walt Whitman’s Civil War, 1960. Selections from Leaves of Grass, 1961. Poets of Today, 1964.
Where is Vietnam?, 1967. New Jazz Poets, 1967. In the Time of Revolution, 1969.
The Writing on the Wall, 1969. The Tenderest Lover, 1970. From the Belly of the Shark, 1973.
For Neruda, For Chile, 1975. The Autobiography of an Empire, 1976.
Served with Air Corps, United States Army, 1917-1918. Member P.E.N.
Married Lillian Apotheker, June 19, 1926. Children: Michal Lowenfels Kane, Judy Lowenfels Jacobs, Manna Lowenfels Perpelitt, Angela Lowenfels Schwartz.