Jimmy Durham. Poems

Jimmie Durham was born in the U.S. in 1940. He is a poet, sculptor, essayist and a visual artist who has been making and exhibiting work since 1963. His first solo exhibition was at the public gallery of the University of Texas at Austin in 1965; a period when the cultural and political uses of material, objects and space were central to his practice. Since that time his substantial career has deftly bridged the space between art and activism. Several of his poems are included in the Anthology of Native American Poetry of the Twentieth Century, published by Harper and Row. His book of collected poems Columbus Day was published by West End Press, Albuquerque, in 1983. Poems That Do Not Go Together is the second part of his collected poems, written between 1966 and 2012. It brings together 41 poems.