Mark Turbyfill
Mark Turbyfill was a dancer, poet, and painter from Chicago. While his professional dance career began in 1919, he gained renown in the 1920s for his avant-garde verse. His poems were published in Margaret Anderson’s The Little Review and in Poetry magazine, whose May 1926 issue was devoted entirely to his long poem “A Marriage with Space.” His first book of poetry, The Living Frieze (1921), was published in a limited edition by Monroe Wheeler. His later collection, The Words Beneath Us: Balletic Poems (Tower Features Press, 1951), weaves together photographs of experimental performance with poetry.
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