David-Baptiste Chirot

David-Baptiste Chirot (David Lawrence Harris) (1953–2021) was an interdisciplinary, multimedia American artist. His artwork included mail art, collage, visual poetry, asemic poetry, performance poetry, and poetic essays.

Biography Chirot was raised in Vermont. He attended Dartmouth University for his undergraduate studies where he majored in English and French. Throughout his life, Chirot struggled with depression, addiction, and poverty. He died in 2021.

“Himself on the cusp between “outside” & “inside” poetry & art, Chirot, whose work, both verbal & visual, is a great too often hidden resource, writes from an authoritative if barely visible position in contemporary letters.”

Selected published works

Rebelle City of crust Eye Reverbations Oranges Hung After Rimbaud's Illuminations