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Allen Tate
12+ albums
indie rock
about
Allen Tate refers to at least two individuals. Firstly, Allen Tate is the songwriter of indie band San Fermin, who released his first solo album, Sleepwalker, in 2016. He first began composing Sleepwalker in the fall of 2014 during a 3-week stay in Copenhagen. A self-taught musician, Tate focuses on finding complexity lyrically as opposed to musically in his pieces, expressing himself through beautifully written words. Secondly, "John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944. Tate was born near Winchester, Kentucky to John Orley Tate, a businessman, and Eleanor Parke Custis Varnell. In 1916 and 1917 Tate studied the violin at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He began attending Vanderbilt University in 1918, where he met fellow poet Robert Penn Warren. Warren and Tate were invited to join a group of young Southern poets under the leadership of John Crowe Ransom; the group were known as the Fugitive Poets and later as the Southern Agrarians. Tate contributed to the group's magazine The Fugitive and to the agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand published in 1930. Tate also joined Ransom to teach at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. In 1924, Tate moved to New York City where he met poet Hart Crane, with whom he had been exchanging correspondence for some time. During a summer visit with Warren in Kentucky, he began a relati
