Asa Benveniste

Asa Benveniste (1925 – 1990) was a poet.^[1]

Early years

Benveniste was born in New York and settled in England in the 1950s.

Career

After the second world war Benveniste, at this time known as Albert, lived in Paris and in 1948 co-founded the Zero Press with George Solomos (who was then known as Thermistocles Hoetis). Their first publication in spring 1949 was Zero Magazine [1].

Following the second issue, which featured work by Paul Bowles, James Baldwin and Matta, Benveniste moved to London.

Besides being a poet, he also worked as a printer, a typographer, and as a book designer. In London during 1965, he co-founded and managed the Trigram Press, which published work by George Barker, Tom Raworth, Jack Hirschman, J. H. Prynne, David Meltzer, B S Johnson, Jim Dine, Jeff Nuttall, Gavin Ewart, Ivor Cutler and Lee Harwood amongst others.^[2]

In the 1980s Benveniste and his partner Agnetha Falk moved to Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire where they operated a secondhand bookshop. When he died in 1990, Benveniste was buried in the graveyard of Heptonstall church.

The artist Pip (Penelope) Benveniste, Asa's first wife and also his partner in the Trigram Press, died August 30, 2010. Guardian obituary

References

1. ^ At the Grave of Asa Benveniste by Roy Fisher - Poetry Archive
2. ^ Trigram Press Archive

External links

• Throw Out the Lifeline/Lay Out the Corse
• Pommes Poems
• Trigram Press Archives

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Name	Beneviste, Asa
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Date of birth	1925
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Date of death	1990
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