David Lerner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

David Lerner

American writer

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1951

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jul-1997

Profession: writer, poet, author

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About David Lerner

  • David Lerner (November 23, 1951 – July 1, 1997?) was an American renegade poet born in New York City.
  • Lerner came from a family of Russian-Jewish renegades, and grew up as a so-called "red-diaper baby".
  • Lerner published numerous articles as a journalist, including material on the Russian singer and poet Vladimir Vysotsky.
  • Lerner pursued a bohemian life and became involved in the notorious Cafe Babar in San Francisco about 1986, a group dubbed as the Babarians.
  • Lerner and Bruce Isaacson co-founded Zeitgeist Press and have been referred to as 'the Ezra Pound and T.
  • S.
  • Eliot of the underground.' Lerner's common-law wife, Maura O'Connor also published poetry. One of Lerner's most celebrated poems, "Mein Kampf", is a seminal statement of underground poetics in response to the weight of the mainstream.
  • In it he says: Lerner was associated with the Lyman Family a.k.a.
  • Fort Hill Construction, who have preserved his literary memory.
  • Lerner's work has not yet been fully collected in an available edition.
  • A considerable amount of Lerner's work is still unpublished, including poems, prose, and a large volume of letters. Lerner died of a drug overdose in 1997 and Zeitgeist published 'The Last Five Miles to Grace' posthumously.
  • Bucky Sinister of the San Francisco Bay Guardian wrote: "Lerner was a broken-down saint if there ever was one.
  • He was an eloquent screamer, a soft-spoken rageoholic, a madman with a great manuscript.
  • His poetry will always be a reminder of a time when poetry in the Mission was spontaneous, magical, and more than a little bit dangerous."

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