Al Alvarez

Person · Open Library

Born

5 August 1929

Died

23 September 2019

Works

12

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United Kingdom

Active from

1929

Active to

2019

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

24

Total plays

47

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,854x

2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,951x

3. Tissue-based map of the human proteome

   · 2015 · cited 14,095x

4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,994x

5. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

   · 2020 · cited 10,217x

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Quotes

• “His face was blue, on his fingersFlecks of green. 'This is my father',I thought.”
• “Poetry is certainly about pitting yourself against the unknown. The thing about a poem is that you’ve got to get it right. And you’ve got to get it all right. If there’s one word wrong, then the whole thing won’t work. It can be a 500 line or 5 line poem, it doesn’t matter. You get stuck on that word that isn’t right. You know the poem isn’t going to be finished until it all clicks into place. It is a kind of weird concoction.”
• “In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.”
• “Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”
• “Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul – his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.”
• “The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.”

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