Office files of The American Poetry Review, 1980-1989.

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Office files of The American Poetry Review, 1980-1989.

Comprises 20 items, 22 leaves correspondence plus manuscripts for publication. Contains translation by Lesser of poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke. Also includes essay by Lesser about Gunnar Ekelöf and Hjalmar Robert Gullberg. Oversize galley in folder 5345.

3 folders.

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Ekelöf, Gunnar, 1907-1968

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Lesser, Rika

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Rika Lesser was born July 21, 1953 in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1974, attended the University of Gothenburg from 1974-1975, and received her M.F.A from Columbia University in 1977. She pursued a career in news and graphics, becoming a lecturer in creative writing beginning in 1985. She became governing board member of the Translation Center at Columbia University. She has received many national and international awards. Her retelling of Hansel and Gretel...

Gullberg, Hjalmar, 1898-1961

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Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926

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Rilke wrote to Werfel in 1913 after reading Werfel's first 2 books of poems, Der Weltfreund and Wir sind. They met for the first time in the same year. Ruth Siebe-Rilke was the daughter of Rilke and Clara Westhoff; here she signs her name Ruth Fritzsche-Rilke. She was at that time the administrator of the Rilke family archive, located in Fischerhude, near Bremen, Germany. (More recently the archive has been located in Gernsbach.) From the description of Correspondence with Franz Werf...