In the course of researching a book, I was cruising around the ever-wonderful Wikipedia today and came across the name of this poet and sculptor. This was the first I'd heard of him. Wikipedia didn't describe his poetry or sculptures but did mention that he'd been arrested for having urinated on the grave of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe. It didn't say what year that happened -- how close chronologically was it to his suicide?
Three days before he hanged himself, he said to a friend, "I am allergic to this planet."
This has been a Cultural History Moment.
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I came across his name just today in a dedication of a poem written by Laurence Weisberg
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