Heinz Müller

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Heinz Müller was an Italian immigrant arriving alone in the US in 1924 at the age of 5. He was sent by his parents to live with an uncle in Hoboken, New Jersey, where stayed until his disappearance in 1957.

Working in a butcher shop, Müller published four short books of poetry between 1949 and 1956. Neither met with either critical or commercial success. Most of his work, like the example above, eschews meter and punctuation. His first book, Red Green Clouds Bicycle (1949), was a deeply personal work of myth-building. The three subsequent volumes, although making the occasional reference back to those worlds, mostly revolved around mundane incidents and failed romance.

A.F. Bytt (red). Taxonomy of Forgotten Poets of the 20th Century (volume 3). Buffalo; University of West Seneca. 1999. p. 68.