David Daniels (October 11, 1933 – May 12, 2008) was a visual poet.

Early life

Daniels was born in Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, New Jersey and grew up in

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Career

He made words out of pictures and pictures out of words for over 60 years. ''Visual Poetry: The Shape Poem: Shapes'' tell the words what to say and words tell the shapes what to form. His collection of more than 350 visual poems in

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format, ''The Gates of Paradise'' (2000), as well as his autobiographical collection of more than 250 visual poems, Years (2003), are available online in their entirely at

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, edited by

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; and at his own website ''The Gates of Paradise''. His collection of visual biographical poems, ''Humans, a 200+ Human Beingèd Hymn To Humanity'', is a work in progress. Daniels' poems, paintings, manuscripts, and memorabilia are archived at The Poetry/Rare Books Collection of The University Libraries,

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; the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry;http://www.rediscov.com/sacknerarchives/ the Ohio State University Libraries; the

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; and the Mata and Arthur Jaffe Collection of Books as Aesthetic Objects. Selections from his body of work are featured online in a variety of zines, blogs, and collections. Daniels' work has been featured in exhibitions and galleries on three continents.

Personal life and death

Daniels lived in

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and died at home among friends.

References

David Daniels' websiteXerolage 34

UbuWeb

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