[1] After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he fled to Canada with his parents, who were Holocaust survivors.
[2] During his undergraduate degree at Concordia University he participated in the Sir George Williams affair as an occupant.
He then took a few years off to live at an artist commune called Meatball Creek Farm in the Quebec Eastern Townships.
[2] His work has been published in six different languages: French, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, Slovenian and Turkish.
[4] He was a part of the Montreal experimental writing collective, The Vehicule Poets and was a founding editor of Véhicule Press.