“Among the best of these latter people I have found a genuineness, an unassuming candor, a rough sense of humor, and an inquisitive intelligence.”
About Maxwell Bodenheim
26 May 1892–6 February 1954
Maxwell Bodenheim's life reads like one of his own feverish poems—raw, defiant, laced with startling imagery, and shadowed by a restless hunger for freedom that both illuminated and destroyed him. Born into the humid anonymity of a small Southern town, he rose to become the self-crowned King of Greenwich Village…