Tom Clark, in his biography of Olson,  points out that Rainer Gerhardt
was "editor of the avant-garde magazine Fragmente.  Before his death by
suicide at age twenty-eight in 1954, Gerhardt would become the first
serious European translator of Olson's poetry, and ... [subject of] two
major Olson poems, 'To Gerhardt, There, Among Europe's Things' and the
elegy 'The Death of Europe.'"
 
Joseph Conte
 
 
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Joseph M. Conte                                 (716) 645-2575 x1009
Associate Professor and                         FAX: (716) 645-5980
Director of Graduate Studies
 
Department of English
306 Clemens Hall
SUNY at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-4610
 
                   http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jconte/
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