Artist
Lydia Tomkiw
Chicago, United States · 1959 – 2007
Lydia Tomkiw is a musician from Chicago, United States, active 1959–2007. They also recorded with Algebra Suicide.
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Biography
American poet, singer and songwriter. She was born August 6, 1959 in Chicago, Illinois; she died September 4, 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Her published poetry collections are 'Ballpoint Erection'. (1st issue 1978. 2nd 1979), 'Obsessions' (1979), 'Popgun Sonatas' (1980) - all MOD Distribution, Chicago.
After teaming up with Don Hedeker to form Algebra Suicide the first printed volume 'Big Skin' appeared in 1986 as Audio + Text package on Cause & Effect.
'Dreadful Swimmers', 1989 on Wide Skirt Press, UK was her final text only collection published during her lifetime.
In 2020 a book with facsimile reproductions of all above, her texts which were set to music and a wealth of before unpublished poems edited by Dan Shepelavy was published by
Universal Exports Of America, including a free download of 'Big Skin'.
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Algebra Suicide
A project Lydia Tomkiw was part of.
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