Sheldon Kranz
Aesthetic Realism Consultant, Writer, Poet  (1919-1980)

Sheldon Kranz, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, Writer, Poet
Photo by Lou Bernstein
Sheldon Kranz, one of America's true poets and important writers was, early, a student of Aesthetic Realism with Eli Siegel and became a consultant, teaching Aesthetic Realism, in 1971. 

We publish here a courageous story of his from 1944 about race, and another about a son and mother that's been presented dramatically at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in NYC. In classes with Mr. Siegel Sheldon Kranz learned what made him, authentically, a poet, and Aesthetic Realism enabled him to see new meaning in literature. As a result he taught the course Literature and the Self in the 1970s.
  •  Personal and Impersonal: Six Aesthetic Realists
    Poems by Sheldon Kranz     from the book Personal and Impersonal. Begins with excerpt from the major critical preface by Eli Siegel: 
"The question, What is poetry?--is as alive today as ever...for it is felt increasingly that what poetry is deeply and immediately concerns what our lives are....."

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Anne Fielding, actress and Aesthetic Realism consultant, who was Sheldon Kranz's wife,
and his colleagues and friends, are proud to bring to you this website!