{"id":62837,"date":"2024-10-14T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=62837"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:49:59","slug":"lionel-ziprin-one-of-the-secret-heroes-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2024\/10\/lionel-ziprin-one-of-the-secret-heroes-of-our-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Ziprin: ‘One of the Secret Heroes of Our Time’<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Lionel Ziprin was a prolific writer, a mystical poet who produced thousands of poems. You wouldn’t tell it from his published output. A small wooden box with ephemera was released in 1990, and his book, Songs for Schizoid Siblings<\/a><\/u>, was published in 2017. There were also a few contributions to magazines. That’s it.”
\u2014 Marco Bakker <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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“He was much larger than a poet, though that\u2019s hard for me to say, as a poet. He was one of the big secret heroes of our time.”<\/em> \u2014 Ira Cohen<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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I am not an artist. I am not an\u00a0
outsider. I am a citizen of the\u00a0
republic and I have remained\u00a0
anonymous all the time by choice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Lionel Ziprin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read his obituary<\/a> in The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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