Harriet Zinnes

Harriet Zinnes (April 18, 1919 – November 30, 2019) was an American poet, fiction writer, translator, art critic, literary scholar and professor. She is associated with poets such as Karl Shapiro, Delmore Schwartz, and Allen Ginsberg, and the writer Anaïs Nin.

Growing up in the early 20th century, Zinnes's poetic and critical output, as with her peers', was concerned with the complex transition between aesthetic and social tensions associated with high modernism and postmodern literature and art. Her creative writing practice was informed by her extensive work on Ezra Pound, her translations of Jacques Prévert, her art criticism, her marriage to a physicist, and her interest in painting and conceptual art. Provided by Wikipedia