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Sheri Martinelli (Shirley Burns Brennan) was born on 17 January, 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an American poet. Discover Sheri Martinelli's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

Popular As Shirley Burns Brennan
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Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 17 January, 1918
Birthday 17 January
Birthplace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Date of death 3 November, 1996
Died Place N/A
Nationality United States

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1918

Sheri Martinelli, (January 17, 1918 – November 3, 1996) was an American painter, poet, and muse.

Martinelli was born Shirley Burns Brennan in Philadelphia in 1918.

Of Irish ancestry, she was the eldest of four children and began using the name Sherry by the time she was a teenager.

Later told that her first name had the wrong numerological value, she modified it to Sheri.

1943

The name Martinelli came by way of a brief early marriage to painter Ezio Martinelli, by whom she had a daughter Shelley (named after the poet) in 1943.

1950

Sheri Martinelli was a protégée of Anaïs Nin and is described at length in Nin's famous Diary; she was the basis for Esme, a major character in William Gaddis’s novel The Recognitions, and then became the long-time muse and mistress of Ezra Pound in Washington, D.C. (she appears in various guises in the later Cantos); Charlie Parker and the members of the Modern Jazz Quartet hung out at her Greenwich Village apartment; Marlon Brando was an admirer and Rod Steiger collected her art, as did E. E. Cummings; she knew and was admired by many of the Beats - Ginsberg was an especially close friend and mentions her in one of his poems- and she was known in San Francisco in the late 1950s as Queen of the Beats; H.D. identified with her and wrote about her in End to Torment.

She wrote unusual prose and poetry, much of it published in her own magazine, the Anagogic & Paideumic Review.

She was one of the first to publish Bukowski, and her magazine was the very first to review his work.

1956

Pound wrote the introduction to a book of her paintings, La Martinelli (1956); reviewing it in Gadfly, Guy Davenport wrote, "Miss Martinelli's painting is a record of evoked images, shapes thoroughly realistic but seen in the imagination only, . . . This little book, unlike the fortieth imitation of somebody's book on Picasso and available everywhere, is a discovery, pictures and commentary moving from an area of the mind now understandably suspect. . . ."

1995

In later years, she appeared under the pseudonym "Sheri Donatti" in Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage, under her own name in David Markson’s novel Reader’s Block, as "Lady Carey" in Larry McMurty's 1995 novel Dead Man's Walk, and she was anthologized in Richard Peabody’s A Different Beat.

When younger, she modeled frequently for Vogue and also appeared in one of Maya Deren’s experimental films.

She is perhaps best known as a companion of Ezra Pound during his years of incarceration at St. Elizabeths Hospital, where she is said to have inspired his Rock-Drill Cantos.