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 ======================================================================= 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/ =======================================================================