Steven Donald Dalachinsky (September 29, 1946 – September 16, 2019) was an American downtown New York City poet, active in the music, art, and

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scenes. He wrote poetry for most of his life and read frequently at Michael Dorf's club the

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, the

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and the

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, an

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festival held annually on the

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of New York City. Dalachinsky also read his works in Japan, France and Germany. He collaborated with many musicians, writing

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for artists: William Parker, Susie Ibarra,

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Joe McPhee Joe McPhee (born November 3, 1939) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone. McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is ...

, Nicola Hein,

Dave Liebman David Liebman (born September 4, 1946) is an American saxophonist, flautist and jazz educator. He is known for his innovative lines and use of atonality. He was a frequent collaborator with pianist Richie Beirach. In June 2010, he received a N ...

, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter,

Joëlle Léandre Joëlle Léandre (born 12 September 1951 in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a French double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in Contemporary classical music, new music and free improvisation. In the field of contemporary music, she has perfor ...

Kommissar Hjuler Kommissar Hjuler (born Detlev Hjuler; 1967) works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist, film maker and police officer at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together wit ...

Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moo ...

Sabir Mateen Sabir Mateen (born April 16, 1951) is an American musician and composer from Philadelphia. His musical style is primarily avant-garde jazz. He plays tenor and alto saxophone, B♭ and alto clarinet, and flute. As a young man, Mateen was origi ...

, Jim O'Rourke, and

Mat Maneri Mat Maneri (born October 4, 1969) is an American composer, violin, and viola player. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri and Sonja Maneri. Career Maneri has recorded with Cecil Taylor, Guerino Mazzola, Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, Ger ...

Dalachinsky authored numerous books including a compendium of poetry written while listening to saxophonist

Charles Gayle Charles Gayle (born February 28, 1939) is an American free jazz musician. Initially known as a saxophonist who came to prominence in the 1990s after decades of obscurity, Gayle also performs as pianist, bass clarinetist, bassist, and percussioni ...

perform throughout New York City, and a collection of poems which focused on his time as a superintendent at an apartment building in

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. Along with pianist Matthew Shipp, he co-authored the book ''Logos and Language: A Post-Jazz Metaphorical Dialogue'' and collaborated with French photographer Jacques Bisceglia on ''Reaching Into The Unknown''. His spoken word albums include ''Incomplete Directions'' and a collaboration with Shipp on the album ''Phenomena of Interference''. Dalachinsky's works also appeared in several journals and anthologies as well. He received the

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, Acker Award,

PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award The PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award is for U.S. multicultural writers, to "promote works of excellence by writers of all cultural and racial backgrounds and to educate both the public and the media as to the nature of multicultural work. ...

and was nominated for a 2015

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. He lived in

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with his wife, painter and poet Yuko Otomo.

Early life

Dalachinsky was born in 1946,

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, "right after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars", which is how he is frequently described. He grew up in the

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section of the borough that was mostly an Italian and Jewish neighborhood with parents that were

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. Dalachinsky said he was "always writing" at an early age and was also "involved in art". His earliest notebooks of his writings that have survived go back to when he was between the ages of 13 and 15. He was once kicked out of a Hebrew school because he was "wearing a cross", and hung out with the Italian kids in the neighborhood which "framed his perception of being Jewish", according to him. Dalachinsky started taking art lessons at the

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where for 18 months he first attempted his hand at painting, eventually turning to writing poetry full-time. It was during this period in his life when he discovered

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and found the poetry scene in Manhattan. He was given copies of

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. The author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, an ...

’s ''

A Coney Island of the Mind ''A Coney Island of the Mind'' is a collection of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti originally published in 1958. It contains some of Ferlinghetti’s most famous poems, such as “I Am Waiting” and “Junkman's Obbligato”, which were created f ...

'' and

Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ...

’s ''

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'', which he says changed his style of writing. Dalachinsky was also influenced by the writings of

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Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

Delmore Schwartz Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer. Early life Schwartz was born in 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, where he also grew up. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when ...

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, and

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...

, especially the work ''

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'' by Blake. Besides writers, he counted obsession, socio-political angst, human disappointment, jazz music and abstract visual art among his influences. Dalachinsky related that writing process was as if "spontaneity mixed with a conscious pushing" and a "descriptive transformation". His works have been portrayed as leaning towards "transforming the image rather than merely describing it". For 19 years, starting in the 1980s, he wrote some of his poems while listening to live jazz music, going to

saxophonist

's performances, creating poems on scraps of paper. In 2006, Dalachinsky published a book of poems devoted entirely to Gayle, with the poems appearing chronologically in the order of the venues where Gayle performed at. The collection was honored in 2007 with a

. The book is also unusual because not only is it documenting the music, but also Dalachinsky's state of mind at the precise moment of capturing a musical phrase. Sometimes when Gayle's performance came with a sermon or lecture, commenting on topics like abortion or racial separatism, Dalachinsky would react with his poems reflecting the mood: Dalachinsky also released a collection of poems, titled ''A Superintendent’s Eyes'', , which focused on his time as a superintendent at a

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apartment building in

. It was published by The Unbearables, whom both him and his wife have a connection with, and describe themselves as a "loose collective of noir humorists, beer mystics, anarchists, neophobes and passionate debunkers". In his 2013 review of the book, Alan Kaufman wrote: "It is the single most important volume of poetry to appear in the last ten years...he is the poet that America has been waiting for to free our national verse from its stratospheric sense of self-importance and return us to a poetry of flesh and heart, song and cement, just as Whitman's ''

Leaves of Grass ''Leaves of Grass'' is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. Though it was first published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and rewriting ''Leaves of Grass'', revising it multiple times until his death. Th ...

'' did in the nineteenth Century". The poems were written over 20 years and described by Kaufman as, "ash can sonatas to lovemaking with wife, eating out in restaurants, illness, cancelled hopes, money worries, cash scores, tenant complaints, landlord humiliations and ruminations on drug addiction". In one poem written while his wife was away in Japan, and he was relocating his writing space, he begins: In 2018, Dalachinsky released his poetry collection ''Where Day and Night Become One: The French Poems: 1983-2017'', , which assembled more than 30 years of writing journals from this trips to Paris. It was published by the New York-based publishing company Great Weather for Media, and was the Silver Award-Winner in the 31st Annual

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Benjamin Franklin Awards in Poetry. In his review of the book in Sensitive Skin,

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wrote: "The free-wheeling Dalachinsky jumps easily from free verse to concrete poetry, from chaotic typography to whimsical designs, word constructions and deconstructions, puns, sound percussion ('tachada, tachada'), plays on names and words à la Duchamp or 'mailtrate de la langue a la Americane'". The poems were written over 34 years and described by Oisteanu as, "a dream-like literary mindscape peppered with head-spinning references, using an erudite knowledge, ostentatious name-dropping and a post-beatnik morphistic narrative of rare synchronicity. A perfect collage of cut-ups; train-of-thought à la Allen Ginsberg; an awkwardly unsettling geography laced with hidden meaning". Addressing a loved one, Dalachinsky writes:

Readings, collaborations and writings

Dalachinsky read throughout the New York City area including at the:

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and the

. and also read in

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. Abroad, he had read his works in Japan, Germany and England, where he read his ''Insomnia Poems'', a collaboration with composer Pete Wyer for

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. In France, Dalachinsky performed extensively. He read in

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and in Paris at Les Instants Chavirés and the L'Olympic Café. He read at the Centre international de poésie in

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, Maison de la Poésie de Nantes at Pannonica, participated in the Sons d'Hiver Festival and the Val-de Marne International Poetry Festival. In 2011, he collaborated with French duet art-rockers The Snobs on ''Massive Liquidity'', the first of three records with the band, including the electronic and rock sounding ''ec(H)o-system'' in 2015. In 2015, he worked with

Alex Lozupone Alex Lozupone is a New York City–based jazz and rock musician and film director. As a musician, he is a member of Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel, and has played with Percy Jones and Stephen Moses. As a director and cinematographer, he sh ...

's group, Eighty Pound Pug on a jazz-metal album; and with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt on ''Flying Home'' In 2017, he collaborated with his wife on two projects, ''Frozen Heatwave'' and ''Black Magic''. Dalachinsky penned liner notes for recordings of several musicians:

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, Charles Gayle,

Anthony Braxton Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Braxton grew up on the South Side of Chica ...

James Blood Ulmer James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 8, 1940) is an American jazz, free funk and blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer plays a Gibson Byrdland guitar. His guitar sound has been described as "jagged" and "stinging". His singing has been called "ragge ...

, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell,

Assif Tsahar Assif Tsahar (born Israel, June 11, 1969) is an Israeli tenor saxophonist and bass clarinetist. He has lived in New York City since 1990. He has performed with Cecil Taylor, Butch Morris, William Parker, Mat Maneri, Hamid Drake, Peter Kowald, ...

, Derek Bailey and

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. Additionally, he collaborated with musicians: William Parker, Susie Ibarra, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter,

, Federico Ughi,

Loren Mazzacane Connors Loren Mazzacane Connors (born October 22, 1949) is an American guitarist who has recorded and performed under several different names: Guitar Roberts, Loren Mazzacane, Loren Mattei, and currently Loren Connors. His music has touched on many genres ...

, Rob Brown, Tim Barnes and Jim Rourke. Other books and

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s he wrote include: ''Quicksand'', ''The Invisible Ray'' with artwork by

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, ''Lautreamont's Laments'', ''Dream Book'', ''In Glorious Black and White'', ''St. Lucie'', ''Are We Not MEN & Fake Book'', ''Trial and Error in Paris'' and ''Where Night and Day Become One'', from his trips to Paris. His

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albums include ''Incomplete Directions'', ''Phenomena of Interference'' with

and ''I thought it was the end of the world then the end of the world happened again'' with

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. In 2015, he released a heavy metal album, ''Leave The Door Open''. Culture Catch stated "Dalachinsky's self-deprecating Brooklyn humor and existentialist beat musings, more usually accompanied by free jazz, prove highly compatible with this doomier sound keyed on Lozupone's electronically combined bass and guitar. Really, what better to accompany a 9/11 poem that starts, 'I thought it was the end of the world/And then the end of the world happened again'?" In 2019, Steve Dalachinsky released his third and last collaboration with The Snobs, ''Pretty in the Morning'', on french label Bisou Records. The album was recorded live at Espace En Cours in Paris in october 2017 with an extended line-up of the band to accompany his voice: Duck Feeling (guitar, Mellotron, synthesizer, drum machine), Mad Rabbit (bass, sampler), Devil Sister (theremin, trumpet, xaphoon), Fuzzy Weasel (guitar, effects).

Anthologies

His poems are included in the anthologies:

Journals

His works have appeared in the journals:

Death

Dalachinsky died of a

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on September 16, 2019, at a hospital in

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, at the age of 72, thirteen days before his 73rd birthday.

Books dedicated to jazz

Avant-garde jazz has been a major inspiration for his writing, with five books of his poems dedicated solely to jazz musicians. All of them being written while listening to the music live. *''The Final Nite: Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook'' - written over 20 years of listening to saxophonist

. *''Logos and Language: A Post-Jazz Metaphorical Dialogue'' - a collaboration with pianist

. *''The Mantis'', - a chapbook for pianist

Cecil Taylor Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet. Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in complex ...

covering 50 years, the first written when he was 19. *''Reaching Into The Unknown'' - collaboration with photographer Jacques Bisceglia written from 1967 through 2011. *''Long Play E.P.'' - a small chapbook for saxophonist

Evan Parker Evan Shaw Parker (born 5 April 1944) is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation. Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free ja ...

Discography

Electronic, experimental, spoken word, abstract and poetry albums (including collaborations): *Incomplete Directions *I Thought It Was The End Of The World Then The End Of The World Happened Again *Phenomena of Interference *Thin Air *Merci Pour le Visite *Massive Liquidity (with The Snobs) *The Bill Has Been Paid *The Fallout Of Dreams *ec(H)o - system (with The Snobs) *Leave the Door Open *Pray For Me *Insomnia Poems *Fluxporn/the NO!art Statements (w/

Boris Lurie Boris Lurie (July 18, 1924 – January 7, 2008) was an American artist and writer. He co-founded the NO!Art movement which calls for socially and politically involved art that would resist and combat the forces of the market. His controversial ...

Dietmar Kirves Dietmar Kirves (born 1941 in Fürstenwalde, Germany). Early work Since 1964 he works in the field of mixed media works with film, photos, music, sculptures and environments. In 1970 he created the mediacontact agency in Düsseldorf in collabora ...

Mama Baer Mama Baer (born Andrea Katharina Ingeborg Göthling; 29 October 1981) is a German sound recordist of noise music and post-industrial music. She is a filmmaker and visual artist at Flensburg. She has had solo and group art exhibitions around the worl ...

) *Fluxus (w/

) *Genconhjulachinsky (w/

Conrad Schnitzler Conrad "Conny" Schnitzler (17 March 1937 – 4 August 2011) was a prolific German experimental musician associated with West Germany's 1970s krautrock movement. A co-founder of West Berlin's Zodiak Free Arts Lab, he was an early member of Tangeri ...

& Gen Ken Montgomery,

) *Justifiable Homicide *Gotta Keep Moving (Steve Dalachinsky & Albey Balgochian >) *Pretty in the Morning (with The Snobs)

Notes

References

Sources

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External links

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