Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – ATTILA JOZSEF

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April 11 — ATTILA JOZSEF
Prominent Hungarian surrealist poet, libertarian communist.

APRIL 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Festival of Unmediated Play
*Prophet’s Birthday

ALSO ON APRIL 11 IN HISTORY…
1722 — Christopher Smart, dotty Brit poet, born, Shipbourne, Kent.
1905 — Surrealist poet Atilla Jozsef born, Ferencvaros, Budapest, Hungary.
1908 — Left communist, literary radical Jean Malaquais born, Warsaw, Poland
1926 — American horticulturist Luther Burbank dies, Santa Rosa, California.
1961 — Nazi henchman Adolph Eichmann goes on trial, Jerusalem, Israel.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective

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