1934
E
[Poem] "My Song." New Pioneer Apr. 1934: 278.
E
[Poem] "We Shall Not Forget You." New Pioneer May 1934: 19.
E
[Poem] "We'll Fight for Our Cause, Not Yours!" New Pioneer Aug. 1934: 23.
E
[Poem] "To Angelo Herndon." New Pioneer Nov. 1934: 6.
1935
E
[Poem] "Scottsboro." New Pioneer Feb. 1935: 7. Listed as the "February Prize Poem." Written c1933.
E
[Poem] "America." New Pioneer Jan. 1936: 13.
E
[Poem] "The Cannon Are Impatient." New Pioneer Apr. 1936: 22.
E
[Poem] "The Statue." New Pioneer Aug. 1936: 21.
1937
E
[Poem] "Poem." Sunday Worker 22 Aug. 1937: 11. In AC as "The Shoe-Shine Boy."
E
[Poem] "Ballad of Tom Mooney." Sunday Worker 26 Sep.1937, sec. 2: 10.
E
[Poem] "Oh How We Suffer: Song of the Masses." Sunday Worker 10 Oct. 1937: 11.
E
[Poem] "Thought on a Train." Brooklyn College Observer 8.2 (Nov. 1937): 6. In AC.
E
[Poem] "Sonnet." Brooklyn College Observer 8.2 (Nov. 1937): 15. In AC as "Defeat." On the Contributors page (18) of this issue the following sentence appears: "Aaron Kramer, another lower Freshman, will be sixteen next month."
E
[Poem] "Lucy Parsons." Sunday Worker 5 Dec. 1937: 11.
E
[Poem] "Hail Florida." Sunday Worker 12 Dec. 1937: 11.
1938
E
[Poem] "In the Land of Olives." Sunday Worker 16 Jan. 1938, sec. 2: 11.
1939
E
[Poem] "Sunday Lyric." Brooklyn College Observer 11.1 (Mar. 1938): 15.
E
[Poem] "War." Brooklyn College Observer 12.1 (Oct. 1939): 23. In AF.
E
[Poem] "The Breeze." Brooklyn College Observer 12.3 (Dec. 1939): 14. In AF.
1940
E01
[Poem] "The Soul of Martin Dies."
Student
Outlook (American Student Union, Brooklyn College Chapter) 2 Feb. 1940: 3. "slow" for "low" in line twenty-seven. In AF.
E02
[Poem] "Gulliver." Brooklyn College Observer 13.1 (Apr. 1940): 19. In AF.
E
[Poem] "May Day, 1940." Daily Worker 1 May 1940: 9. In AF.
E
[Poem] "The Breeze." Daily Worker 15 May 1940: 7. In AF.
E03
[Poem] "War." Student Outlook (American Student Union, Brooklyn College Chapter) 1.3 (20 May 1940): [10]. In AF.
E
[Poem] "A Song for Freedom." Daily Worker 23 May 1940: 7. In AF.
E04
[Poem] "Poem."
Brooklyn College Observer 14.1 (Oct. 1940): 8. Begins "The train was high above the
streets..."
E05
[Essay]. "The Oklahoma Case."
Brooklyn College Observer 14.1 (Oct. 1940): 18-19. Written jointly with Edith Gottschalk. Details the arrest and pending trial of two
Brooklyn College students, Eli Jaffe and Alan Lifshutz, charged in Oklahoma
with "criminal syndicalism."
E06
[Poem] "Garcia Lorca."
Brooklyn
College Observer 14.3 (Dec. 1940): 9. In TGR and SP.
E07
[Poem] "The Market."
Student
Outlook (American Student Union, Brooklyn College Chapter) 2.1 (2 Dec.
1940): 9. Later set to music by Waldemar
Hille.
1941
E08
[Poem] "Work Day." Brooklyn
College Observer 15.1 (Mar. 1941):
9. In TGR and TC.
E09
[Poem] "Snow."
Brooklyn College Observer
15.1 (Mar. 1941): 18. In TGR and
TC.
E10
[Poem] "The Knight of Hope."
Brooklyn College Observer 15.1 (Mar. 1941): 23.
E11
[Poem] "Valedictory Ode."
Brooklyn College New Observer 15.2 (Apr. 1941): 18.
E12
[Poem] "My Mind Has Run Through
Forests."
Brooklyn College New Observer
15.3 (May 1941): 11. In GM as
"Spring Song" with the first line changed.
1942
E13
[Poem] "To a Soldier Living."
Observer-Kaleidoscope 8.1 (Oct. 1942): 6.
1943
E14
[Poem] "For the Murdered Jews."
Jewish
Examiner 29.9 (5 Mar. 1943): [N.
pag.]
E15
[Poem] "Snapshot." New
Voices 18 July 1943: 10.
E16
[Poem] "Christmas Carol."
The
Bedside Banter (U.S. Army Station Hospital, Hammer Field, CA) 25 Dec. 1943: 1. In TGNS.
E17
[Poem] "Christmas Carol, 1943."
New
Masses 28 Dec. 1943: 13. In TGNS as "Christmas Carol".
1944
E18
[Poem] "Elegy for Meyer Levin." The
American Hebrew 21 Apr. 1944:
7. In TGNS.
E19
[Poem] "The Crucifixion."
Pulse:
The Inter-College Literary-Art Magazine
2.1 (May 1944): 17.
E20
[Poem] "Overture."
Pulse:
The Inter-College Literary-Art Magazine
2.1 (May 1944): 18.
E21
[Poem] "The Recapture of
Sevastopol."
New Masses 23 May 1944:
5. In TGNS.
E22
[Poem] "On Fiftieth Street."
Experiment:
A Quarterly of New Poetry 1.2 (July
1944): 19. In GM.
E23
[Poem] "Lullaby." Experiment:
A Quarterly of New Poetry 1.2 (July
1944): 20.
E24
[Poem] "In Memoriam."
New
Currents 2.7/8 (Sep. 1944): 9. In TGNS, untitled, as the dedication and in BB as
"Lublin."
E25
[Poem] "Song of Liberation."
The
American Hebrew 15 Sep. 1944:
14. In TGNS as "Liberation
Song" with three stanzas omitted and "Sunrise in Paris"
added. Last section, titled "Tell
This Blood" in choral setting by Lukas Foss, received honorable mention at
the 1946 Cleveland Music Festival, judged by Aaron Copland. In BB as "Monument."
E26
[Essay] "Two Poets."
New
Masses 19 Sep. 1944: 23-25. Reviews of Exile From a Future Time by Sol Funaroff (Dynamo) and No Road Back by Walter Mehring (Samuel
Curl).
E27
[Poem] "Chanukah 1944."
The
American Hebrew 15 Dec. 1944:
33. A sonnet with lines 4 and 8
erroneously broken. In BB as
"Hanukkah 1944."
1945
E28
[Poem] "The Mayflower: Three Hymns." Voices:
A Quarterly of Poetry 120 (Winter
1945): 23-26. In GM.
E29
[Essay] "The Unended Song." New
Masses 16 Jan. 1945: 23-24. Review of They Look Like Men by Alexander F. Bergman (Ackerman).
E30
[Poems] "Tito" and "A Letter to the
Army Air Corps." Office and Professional News 12.3 (Mar. 1945): 10. Incorporated in an unsigned review of Thru Our Guns titled "Aaron Kramer-
Poet and Trade Unionist". In
TGNS. Second poem is part of the sonnet
sequence, "The Triumph of Icarus."
E31
[Essay] "Something We Live By." New
Masses 3 Apr. 1945: 24. Reviews of For Crossing Wide Waters by Hargis Westerfield (Driftwood Press), Poems by John Beck Shank (Knopf), and An American in Sicily by Earle Davis
(Margent Press).
E32
[Poem] "Seymour Keidan." New
Masses 10 Apr. 1945: 22. In GM and BB.
E33
[Essay] "Wrestling With Angels." New
Masses 10 Apr. 1945: 27-28. Review of Poems by Joseph Eliyia, translated by Rae Dalven (Anatolia Press).
E34
[Poem] "Pity." New Masses 15 May 1945: 9.
E35
[Poem] "To Festus Coleman in
Prison." New Masses 31 June 1945:
9. In GM.
E36
[Essay] "The Tower." New
Masses 31 July 1945: 12-13,
15. Focuses on William Butler Yeats and
Robinson Jeffers.
E37
[Poem] "Telegram." The
Span 4.1 (Sep./Oct. 1945): 5. Originally part of "The Glass
Mountain," but not included in GM.
E38
[Poem] "Marching Song." Office
and Professional News 12.10 (Oct.
1945): 8. In GM and later in TC as the
final section of "A Wartime Winter Poem."
E39
[Poem] "On the Harnessing of Atomic
Energy." New Masses 23 Oct. 1945:
8. Kramer discusses and quotes from
this poem in G535.
E40
[Poem] "The Song of
the Burning Bush." The American Hebrew 23 Nov. 1945: 11. In GM and in BB as the dedicatory poem.
1946
E41
[Poem] "Nocturne." New
Masses 29 Jan. 1946: 12.
E42
[Poem] "Victory Comes to the Unbombed
Cities." New Masses 9 Apr. 1946:
23. In GM.
E43
[Poems] "Spring Song" and
"Song." The Span 4.4 (Apr./May 1946): 13. "Spring Song" in TG.
1947
E44
[Poem] "Pledge." Saturday
Review 8 Feb. 1947: 32. In TGNS, untitled, as Part Five of
"Liberation Song." See G25.
E45
[Translation] "Partisan Song," by Hirsh Glick. Jewish Life 1.6 (Apr. 1947): 7. From the Yiddish. Includes score. In M, CYP, and LL.
E
[Essay] "Kreymborg Bodenheim Poems Enrich Treasury of People's Culture."
Daily Worker 20 Apr. 1947: N. pag.
E46
[Poem] "The Road I Have Chosen." The
Protestant June/July 1947: 32. Titled "Marching Song" in GM and
in TC as Section Four of "A Wartime Winter Poem." Identified as the last musical setting by
Charles Wakefield Cadman.
E47
[Translation] "The Ballad of Itzik Wittenberg (From
the Vilna Ghetto)," by Schmerke Katcherginsky. Jewish Life 1.12
(Oct. 1947): 19. From the
Yiddish. In M, CYP, and LL.
E48
[Translations] "Two Poems: Belshazzar [and] Prologue
to `The Rabbi of Bacherach,'" by Heinrich Heine. Jewish Life 2.2 (Dec. 1947): 20. From the German. In HH1 and HH2.
1948
E49
[Poem] "The Thunder of the Grass." Jewish
Life 2.3 (Jan. 1948): 12-14. In TG
and BB.
E50
[Poem] "The Thunder of the Grass." The
American Hebrew 6 Feb. 1948: 4,
8-9. In TG and BB.
E51
[Translation] "The Stone," by Ber Green
(1901-1989). Jewish Life 2.6 (Apr. 1948): 20. From the Yiddish. In LL.
E52
[Poem] "An Ode for the Jewish
State." The American Hebrew 24 Sep.
1948: 4-5. In GT and BB as
"Israel: An Ode." Published
one week after the United Nations created the new nation.
E53
[Essay] "Visions and Things." Memo
(United Office and Professional Workers of America, Local 16) Nov. 1948: [N. pag.] Includes many passages from William Blake.
1949
E54
[Translation] "Lullaby," by Benjamin Katz
(1905- ). Yiddish America 1.3
(Mar. 1949): [N. pag.] From the
Yiddish. In G_______
E55
[Translation] "Song of the Palmach" [author not
identified]. Jewish Life 3.10 (Aug. 1949): 18. From the Hebrew.
E56
[Poems] "Mother Goose at Peekskill." Memo (United Office and Professional Workers of America, Local 16) Sep. 1949: [N. pag.] Includes eight parodies of nursery rhymes published in Kramer's occasional column "Visions and Things." Contains the note: "Written on the floor of bus No. 106, along Route 100, at 6:30 P.M., September 4th."
E
[Letter] "A Letter from Aaron Kramer." Daily Worker 14 Sep. 1949: 12. Responds to "a sour welcome from your reviewer" toward The Golden Trumpet.
E
[Poem] "For Sol Funaroff." Daily Worker 3 Nov. 1949: N. pag. In GT.
E57
[Poems] "Visions and Things." Memo (United Office and Professional Workers of
America, Local 16) Dec. 1949: [N.
pag.] Includes "Santa at
Wanamaker's" (in TC as "Santa at Gimbels), "The Trees" (in
TEW as "Christmas Trees"), and "A New Carol" (in TEW as
"A Song for Peace," section 6 of "When Every Tear Is Turned to
Stone").
E58
[Poem] "Peekskill." Harlem
Quarterly 1.1 (Winter 1949/50): 27-28. An errata slip inserted following p.28 adds line
6 of Section Four which was omitted in the original printing and properly
spaces the third and fourth quatrains.
In TW. Kramer served on the
editorial board with Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, and others. Performed by the Weavers with Frank Silvera
as narrator at the First Anniversary Commemoration, Manhattan Center, New York.
1950
E59
[Essay] "Voices: A Quarterly Magazine of Verse,
Winter, 1950: A Negro Poets Issue."
Harlem Quarterly 1.2
(Spring 1950): 50-52. Reviews
the special anthology issue, guest edited by Langston Hughes.
E60
[Translations] "Poems of Morris Winchevsky." Jewish
Life 4.7 (May 1950): 23-25. From the Yiddish. Kramer's biographical sketch of Winchevsky appears on pp. 23-24. Includes: "In Rain, in the Wind and the
Frost" (24) in CYP and DV; "Jack the Thief" (24-25), "A
Little Girl in the City" (25), "A Battle Song" (25), "My
Vow" (25) in CYP, "In Battle" (25) in CYP; all in M except
"A Battle Song." "A
Little Girl in the City" and "A Battle Song," as well as a condensed
biographical sketch, were reprinted in Canadian
Jewish Weekly 4 January 1951: 2.
E61
[Translations] "Poems of Morris Rosenfeld." Jewish
Life 4.8 (June 1950): 16-19. From the Yiddish. Kramer's biographical sketch of Rosenfeld appears on pp. 16-18. Includes:
"What is the World" (18), in DV with revised version in CYP, M
and TM; "The Teardrop Millionaire" (18), in DV, with revised lines
1-8 in CYP, M, and TM; "With My Child" (18-19), in DV, M, and TM;
"The Sweatshop" (19), in TM and M; and "Shoot the Beast: (19),
in OFS and CYP, DV, M, and TM.
"With My Child," "The Sweatshop," and a condensed
biographical sketch were reprinted in Canadian
Jewish Weekly 25 January 1951:
2. Revised biographical sketch also in
TM.
E62
[Translations] "Poems of David Edelshtat." Jewish
Life 4.9 (July 1950): 12-14. From the Yiddish. Kramer's biographical sketch of Edelshtat appears on pp. 12-13. Includes: "In Battle" (13), in DV
with line 7 revised; "To My
Brothers" (13); "From My Journal" (13), two concluding stanzas
in DV, entire poem in CYP and M; "The Worker" (13-14);
"Spring" (14), in DV;
"The Wounded Eagle" (14), in M; and "The Last Will"
(14), in CYP and DV as "My Testament." "In Battle," "The Worker," "The Last
Will," and a condensed biographical sketch were reprinted in Canadian Jewish Weekly (11 January 1951): 2. Entire biographical sketch reprinted as
"David Edelshtat-- A Biographical Essay, Reprinted from `Jewish
Life,'" The Jewish Digest
(Johannesburg, South Africa) October/November 1950: 53-54. In CYP.
E63
[Translations] "Poems of Joseph Bovshover." Jewish
Life 4.10 (Aug. 1950): 14-16. From the Yiddish. Kramer's biographical sketch of Bovshover appears on pp. 14-15. Includes: "A Song for the People"
(15), in DV; "To Sing or to
Damn" (16), in DV and, titled "To Sing or to Curse," in CYP and
M; "From My Album" (16), in M
as second section of poem by that name; and "Revolution" (16),
stanzas 1, 3, 4, and 8 in CYP and M as "To Those in Power." "A Song for the People," "To
Sing or to Damn," "From My Album," and a condensed biographical
sketch were reprinted in Canadian Jewish
Weekly 18 January 1951: 2. In CYP.
E64
[Poem] "As Shakespeare Said." National
Guardian 9 Aug. 1950: 1. In RFD as "Patriotism."
E65
[Poem] "In Contempt." National
Guardian 30 Aug. 1950: 6. In DV as Part Four of "October in
Freedom Land."
E66
[Poem] "That Mighty Twine." Harlem
Quarterly 1.3-4 (Fall/Winter 1950):
45-55. Based on an incident related in
B.A. Botkin's Lay My Burden Down. In TW.
E67
[Translation] "Awake," by David Edelshtat. Jewish
Life 4.11 (Sep. 1950): 19. From the Yiddish. In DV.
E68
[Poem] "Halloween." Sing
Out! Oct. 1950: 12. In RFD and TC.
E69
[Poem] "All Eyes Can See." National
Guardian 11 Oct. 1950: 2. In DV as Part Two of "October in
Freedom Land."
E70
[Translation] "A New Song," by Heinrich
Heine. National Guardian 25 Oct.
1950: 14. From the German. Translation unattributed. In HH1 and HH2 as
part of Section One of "Germany: A Winter's Tale."
E71
[Translations] "Poems." Jewish Life 4.2 (Dec. 1950): 24. From the Yiddish. "My Son" by Morris Rosenfeld, in M and TM; and "To
the Wind" and "The Flower Island" by Joseph Bovshover, in DV and
M. In CYP.
1951
E72
[Essay] "There's No Money in Music . . . but the Lark's a Millionaire." National
Guardian 28 Feb. 1951: 6. Review of
No More War, and Other Poems by
Alfred Kreymborg (Bookman Associates).
E73
[Poems] "Love Song" and
"Return." Nocturne (Magazine of the Brooklyn
College School of General Studies)
Spring 1951: 14. Part Two of
"Love Song" appears in M as "Still Life." "Return" appears in TC as
"Alma Mater".
E74
[Poems] "Tsvei Lider." Yiddishe
Kultur Mar. 1951: 48. These two brief Yiddish poems constitute
Kramer's only writings up to that time in a language other than English. An explanatory letter by Kramer, translated
into Yiddish by the editor N. Meisel, accompanies the text.
E75
[Translations] "Four Poems." Jewish
Life 5.6 (Apr. 1951): 24-25. From the Yiddish. Includes: "Three
Sisters" (24) by Morris Winchevsky, in CYP, DV and M; "Pious
Hypocrites" (24) by Morris Winchevsky; "A Teardrop on the Iron"
(24-25) by Morris Rosenfeld, in CYP, M and TM; "My Place" (25) by
Morris Rosenfeld, in DV and, much revised, in CYP, M and TM as "My Camping
Ground."
E76
[Poems] "Nocturne" and
"Autumnal." Nocturne (Magazine of the Brooklyn College School of General Studies) Fall
1951: 9. "Nocturne" received
the New York State Poetry Award for 1954. In TC, untitled, as the opening
poem. "Autumnal" in DV,
untitled, as Part One of "October in Freedom Land." Also in TC as "October".
E77
[Poem] "Monticello; a Jefferson
Cantata." The Last Call! 3.1 (Dec.
1951): 6. In DV with the first twelve
lines omitted.
E78
[Poem] "Is This the City." The
Last Call! 3.1 (Dec. 1951): 7. Originally intended as a section of
"The Tinderbox". In RFD.
E79
[Poem] "A Song Unsung From the
Windows." The Last Call! 3.1 (Dec.
1951): 8. A section of "The
Tinderbox" never otherwise published.
E80
[Poem] "A Mother Along the Line of March." National
Guardian 5 Dec. 1951: 1. In DV as Section Four of "Songs From
`The Tinderbox'". Also in RFD.
1952
E81
[Translation] "Homeland," by Binem Heller
(1908- ). Jewish Life 6.3 (Jan. 1952): 16. From the Yiddish.
E82
[Essay] "New Rolfe Book." National
Guardian 16 Jan. 1952: 8. Review of First Love and Other Poems, by Edwin Rolfe (Los Angeles, Larry
Edmunds Book Shop).
E83
[Translation] "The Last One, the First One," by
Isaac E. Rontch [sic]. The Chicago Jewish
Forum 10.3 (Spring 1952): 206. From the Yiddish. In M and LL.
E84
[Translations] "Jewish Workers' Poems." Jewish
Life 6.5 (Mar. 1952): 17-18. From the Yiddish. Includes: "To the
Muse" (17) by David Edelshtat, in CYP and M; "The Day is
Unfolding" (17) by David Edelshtat, in DV; "The Lion" (17-18) by
Morris Rosenfeld, in CYP, DV, M, and TM; "The Sweatshop" (17-18)
by Morris Rosenfeld, in DV
and, titled "Corner of Pain and Anguish," in CYP, M and TM; "A
Cry of Anguish" (18) in DV and M as "I Hear a Cry"; and "A
Broom, and Watch Me Sweep" (18) by Morris Winchevsky, in CYP, DV and M.
E85
[Translations] "Six Poems by Joseph
Bovshover." Jewish Life 6.6 (Apr. 1952): 18-19. From the Yiddish. Includes: "In Memory of David Edelshtat" (18), in M;
"Mother and Daughter" (18), in CYP and M; "The Sighing
Voice" (18), in M; "Verses" (18), in M; "To My
Brothers" (19), in CYP, DV and M; "My Final Wish" (19), in DV.
E86
[Poem] "Vesey Speaks to the
Congregation." Jewish Life 6.9 (July 1952): 13. In
DV as part of the title poem.
E87
[Poem] "The Hanging Song." National
Guardian 4 July 1952: 9. Printed, along with a sizeable introduction,
in an article titled "Denmark Vesey, July 2, 1822." In DV.
1953
E88
[Poem] "A Meeting at Vesey's." Jewish
Life 7.4 (Feb. 1953): 9. In DV as part of the title poem.
E89
[Poem] "Singing." Masses
& Mainstream 6.4 (Apr. 1953): 33-34. In RFD as introductory poem.
1954
E90
[Essay] "Maxwell Bodenheim." National
Guardian 22 Feb. 1954: 7. A memorial tribute read, on Kramer's behalf,
at Bodenheim's funeral by Alfred Kreymborg, later at a Poetry Society of
America meeting by Kramer who also read a group of Bodenheim poems, and
subsequently described on the jacket and in the foreword of Bodenheim's
autobiography, My Life and Loves in
Greenwich Village (5). Reprinted as
conclusion of "Bodenheim: A Personal Note," in BB.
E91
[Poem] "Freedom Song." National
Guardian 4 July 1954: 11. In RFD as
the final section of "The Bell and the Light," providing the volume's
title. Incorporated into the final
section of Waldemar Hille's oratorio Moses. In BB as "The Hour."
E
[Poem] "A Song for Singers." Daily Worker 11 Aug. 1954: N. pag. In RFD.
1955
E92
[Poem] "Letters from Kansas." Masses
& Mainstream 8.4 (Apr. 1955):
28-32. In AB, untitled, as Section
2. Two songs appear in M (28-29). In BB titled as Section 2 of "A Ballad of August Bondi."
E93
[Poem] "A Ballad of August Bondi." Jewish
Life 9.7 (May 1955): 12-14. The excerpts are Sections One, Three, and
Four of AB. Section Two is summarized
only. In BB.
E94
[Poem]. "Einstein." National
Guardian 2 May 1955: 2. Published immediately after Einstein's death
on 18 April 1955. In BB.
E95
[Translation] "Walt Whitman (America's Great
Poet)," by Morris Rosenfeld. Jewish Life 9.9 (July 1955): 20. From the Yiddish. Published on the occasion of the centenary of the first
publication of Leaves of Grass, 4
July 1855. In M, TM, and CYP.
E96
[Essay] "A Double World." National
Guardian 11 July 1955: 8. Review of Figures From a Double World by Thomas McGrath (Swallow).
E97
[Poem] "Tompkins Square." Masses
& Mainstream 8.10 (Oct. 1955):
29. In TC and BB.
E98
[Translations] "Four Women Poets." Jewish
Life 10.1 (Nov. 1955): 13-16. From the Yiddish. Biographical notes by Kramer appear on pp. 13-14. Includes "The Mothers Rejoice"
(14-15) by Sarah Barkan (1888-1957); "Brothers in Town and in City"
(15) by Sarah Fell-Yellin (1895-1968); "On the Uphill of Time"
(15-16) by Hannah Safran (1902- ) in
CYP; and "My Mother's Hands" (16) by Dora Teitelboim (1914- 1992) in
CYP and AMY. The poems were translated
c.1948.
E99
[Poem] "Blues for Emmett Till." National
Guardian 7 Nov. 1955: 4. Written in response to the 28 August 1955
shooting murder of the young black man in Mississippi.
1956
E100
[Essay] "A Legacy of Light: The Poems of Edwin Rolfe." National
Guardian 2 Jan. 1956: 10. Review of Permit Me Refuge by Edwin Rolfe (California Quarterly).
E101
[Translation] "Heinrich Heine," by Morris
Rosenfeld. Jewish Life 10.5 (Mar.
1956): 7. From the Yiddish. In M.
E102
[Translation] "The Silesian Weavers," by
Heinrich Heine. Jewish LIfe 10.7 (May
1956): 11. From the German. In HH1 and HH2.
E103
[Essay] "The Link Between Heinrich Heine and
Emma Lazarus." Publications of the
American Jewish Historical Society
45.4 (June 1956): 248-257. Based
on a chapter in Kramer's unpublished master's thesis, Emma Lazarus: Her Life and Work, Brooklyn College, 1951. Available in microform at the Brooklyn
College Library. Essay reprinted as a
pamphlet. In BB.
E104
[Poem] "Threnody." New
York Times 21 July 1956: 14. In RH.
E105
[Translation] "The Concert of Concerts," by Adam
Mickiewicz. Polish Review 1.4 (Autumn 1956): 63-67. From the Polish. Translation from Pan Tadeusz, Book Ten. Reprinted as a pamphlet in 1957.
E106
[Poem] "For Peretz Markish and Itzik
Feffer." Jewish Life 11.1 (Nov.
1956): 23. First admission by the
journal (and buried in an obscure corner) that the Soviet-Yiddish poets had
been murdered; a fact subsequently ignored by its editors for years. As a result, Kramer terminated his
connection with the journal for almost twenty-five years, although a few items
remained to be published in its pages.
In BB.
1957
E107
[Poem] "In Us Lives the Music." Jewish
Life 11.3 (Jan. 1957): 19. An excerpt comprising Part One of a six-part
verse narration performed at Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY on 29 December
1956 by Kramer and at the Wilshire Ebell Theater, Los Angeles, CA on 19 January
1957. Mimeographed copies of the entire
narration were distributed to both audiences.
E108
[Poems] "Three Songs in Memory of My
Father." Venture 2.4 (1957/58):
40-41. First two poems in TC, the third
in M. In BB.
1958
E109
[Essay] "Sholem Asch: A Symposium." Jewish
Currents 12.1 (Jan. 1958):
11-12. Jewish Life name changes to Jewish
Currents as of this issue. Kramer,
Sidney Finkelstein, and Ben Levine provide memorial assessments.
E110
[Translation] "I Learn By Watching Flowers," by
Sarah Barkan. Jewish Currents 12.2 (Feb. 1958): 14. From the Yiddish.
Translated c.1948. Published at Barkan's death.
E111
[Poem] "The Widower." New
York Times 8 Oct. 1958: 34. In RH.
E112
[Poems] "Poems of New York." NYU
Square Journal (Monthly Literary Supplement) 3 Nov. 1958: Section 2: 3.
Includes "Ballad of West 13th Street" (in TC and BB),
"The Tune of the Calliope" (in TC), "Treatment" (in TGR in
group titled "Advertisements" and in TC), "Alma Mater" (in
TC), and "Nocturne" (in TC).
1959
E113
[Translation] "My Home and My Land," by Chaim Schwartz
(1903- ). Los
Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (1959): 11. From the Yiddish.
E114
[Poem] "Year's End." New
York Times 1 Jan. 1959: 30. In RH.
E115
[Poem] "`When I Have Fears...'." New
York Times 5 Mar. 1959: 30. In RH.
E116
[Poem] "To a Certain Wind." New
York Herald Tribune 13 Mar. 1959:
14. In M and BB.
E117
[Poem] "Gulls." New York Herald Tribune 8 May 1959: 12. In RH.
E118
[Poem] "'Massacre of the Innocents' (Vatican
Museum)." New York Herald Tribune 23
July 1959: 12. In RH.
E119
[Poem] "In the Woods." New
York Times 13 Aug. 1959: 26. In RH.
E120
[Poem] "The Visit." New
York Herald Tribune 31 Aug. 1959:
12. In M.
E121
[Poem] "Warning." New York Herald Tribune 5 Nov. 1959: 20. In RH, as the first of three sonnets comprising
"Fire!!"
E122
[Poem] "Three Years." New
York Times 8 Dec. 1959: 44. In
RH.
1960
E123
[Poem] "Birthday." New
York Herald Tribune 8 Jan. 1960:
12. In RH.
E124
[Poem] "Decade's Birth." New
Republic 25 Jan. 1960: 13. In RH.
E125
[Poem] "As If an Oak." The
Klaxon (Bogota High School,
Bogota, NJ 07603) 16.5 (29 Jan. 1960):
1. Unattributed. Published in memory of Mabel B. Tasca,
Kramer’s colleague at the high school, but written in 1957 for Kate Dobronyi,
Katherine Kramer's grandmother, and read at her funeral. Reprinted for many years on the Bogota High
School Drama Awards program, dedicated to Tasca's memory. In M.
E126
[Poem] "Snowsong." New
York Times 1 Feb. 1960: 26. In RH.
E127
[Poem] "For a Teacher Who Died in the New
Year." New York Herald Tribune 18
Feb. 1960: [N. pag.] For Mabel B.
Tasca, Kramer's colleague at Bogota High School, Bogota, NJ 07603. In RH.
E128
[Poem] "Love Song." New York Herald Tribune 5 Apr. 1960: 18. In M and BB.
E129
[Poem] "To the Wind." New
York Times 10 Apr. 1960: 10E. In RH.
E130
[Poem] "The Voice of the Gulf." New
York Herald Tribune 20 May 1960:
14. In RH.
E131
[Poem] "In Power." New
York Times 12 June 1960: 10E. Lines 1-4 omitted from Times. The imagined speaker
is Fidel Castro who, several months after taking power, was now cracking down
on dissenters. In RH.
E132
[Poem] "Graduation Ode." Klaxon
(Bogota High School, Bogota, NJ 07603)
17 June 1960: 2. In RH as "Commencement."
E133
[Poem] "His Something." New
York Times 4 July 1960: 12. In WP.
E134
[Poem] "The Uninvited." New
York Herald Tribune 10 Aug. 1960:
16. In RH.
E135
[Poem] "Parade." New
York Times 13 Aug. 1960: 14. In RH.
E136
[Poem] "A Parting Word." New
York Times 3 Oct. 1960: [np]. Part of "Poems For My Mother,"
written in 1956 on the 60th birthday of Kramer's mother. In M and BB.
E137
[Poem] "Gray Bird." New
York Herald Tribune 21 Nov. 1960:
22. For Boris Pasternak, then under house-arrest. In RH and BB.
E138
[Poem] "At Dante's Tomb." Hartford
Times 29 Nov. 1960: 26. In RH.
E139
[Poem] "Cablegram." New
York Times 27 Dec. 1960: 28. In RH.
E140
[Poem] "Israel in Egypt." Hartford
Courant 31 Dec. 1960: 10. In M, as part of Section One of the title
poem, and in BB. First line: "Once
we were free-- imagine!"
E141
[Poem] "Nocturne." Boston
Herald 31 Dec. 1960: 4. In RH, as final poem.
1961
E142
[Poem] "Hindsight." Hartford
Times 11 Jan. 1961: 18. Part of "Poems For My Mother,"
written in 1956 on the 60th birthday of Kramer's mother. In M and BB.
E143
[Poem] "Map of the City." The
Lyric 61.2 (Spring 1961): 42. In RH and BB.
E144
[Poem] "Miriam's Song." The
Lyric 61.2 (Spring 1961): 43. In M, as part of Section
One of the title poem, and in BB.
E145
[Poem] "To the River." American
Weave 25.4 (Spring 1961): 11-12. In M, untitled, as Section Five of
"Eight Sioux Songs," from an uncompleted play about General George
Custer's final battle, written c.1956.
E146
[Poem] "May." Boston Herald 6 May 1961: 6. In M.
E147
[Poem] "Nightsong." New
York Herald Tribune 16 May 1961:
24. In RH.
E148
[Poem] "Lesson." New
York Times 17 May 1961: 36. In RH.
E149
[Poem] "The Rejected." New
Athenaeum Summer 1961: [np] In RH.
E150
[Poem] "To the Silencers." Hartford
Courant 17 June 1961: 10. Written on the day Pete Seeger was summoned
to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Read by Kramer at a Donnell Library program given
jointly with Seeger in June 1984. In
RH.
E151
[Poem] "Silent Warrior." Hartford
Courant 24 June 1961: 12. Part of
"Poems For My Mother," written in 1956 on the 60th birthday of
Kramer's mother. In M and BB.
E152
[Poem] "An Old Woman Opens the
Door." Kansas City Times 29 June
1961: 44. In M, untitled, as Number Six
of "Songs From Santa Fe Night."
E153
[Poem] "All Winter Long." Hartford
Courant 1 July 1961: 12. In M, as Section One of "Eight Sioux
Songs."
E154
[Poem] "Remembrance." The
Oregonian 2 July 1961: 7. In M, as Section Six of "Eight Sioux
Songs."
E155
[Poem] "The Consummation." Village
Voice 6 July 1961: 8. Written on the occasion of Ernest
Hemingway's death on 2 July 1961. In
RH.
E156
[Poem] "At the Close of an Event." New
York Times 13 July 1961: 28. Reflections on the public celebration of
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's return to earth after the first space flight on
12 April 1961.
E157
[Poem] "Never Boast." Hartford
Courant 15 July 1961: 10. Written c.1950.
E158
[Poem] "Beethoven at the Stadium." Village
Voice 27 July 1961: 8. In RH.
E159
[Poem] "For a Lady." Hartford
Times 8 Aug. 1961: 22. For K.D. (i.e. Kate Dobronyi) Mrs. Kramer's grandmother,
a major force in the poet's life; written for her 80th birthday, 1954. In M.
E160
[Poem] "Warning." Hartford
Courant 19 Aug. 1961: 8. In M, untitled, as Section Four of
"Eight Sioux Songs."
E161
[Poem] "Mountain Ballad." St.
Louis Post Dispatch 27 Aug. 1961:
2D. In M, untitled, as Number Five of
"Songs From Santa Fe Night."
E162
[Poem] "After the Tour." Flame 8.3 (Fall 1961): 19. In M.
E163
[Poem] "Forest Vapors." The
Lyric 41.4 (Fall 1961): 101. Winner of the 1961 Reynolds Lyric
Award. In RH.
E164
[Poem] "Invocation." Epos 8.1 (Fall 1961): 7. In RH, as introductory poem.
E165
[Poem] "February Dreamers." New
York Herald Tribune 4 Sep. 1961:
10. In M, untitled, as Section Two of
"Eight Sioux Songs."
E166
[Poem] "As If an Oak." Hartford
Times 19 Sep. 1961: 22. In M.
E167
[Poem] "And Yet...." Village
Voice 5 Oct. 1961: 16. In RH.
E168
[Poem] "Death and the Maiden." New
York Times 7 Oct. 1961: 22. In M, untitled, as Number Seven of
"Songs From Santa Fe Night."
E169
[Poem] "Lament." Denver
Post 15 Oct. 1961: 23. In M, untitled, as Section Eight of
"Eight Sioux Songs." Line 5 should read "that the whole tribe is
in trouble."
E170
[Poem] "The Pier." Kansas City Times 19 Oct. 1961: 38. In RH.
E171
[Poem] "A Word of Thanks." Village Voice 26 Oct. 1961: 17.
Addressed to Yevtushenko on his poem "Babi Yar," and some
years later personally presented to the poet by Kramer. In M and BB.
E172
[Poem] "And It Was Told the King of
Egypt." Scimitar & Song 24.5
(Nov. 1961): [np] In M, as part
of Section Four of the title poem, and in BB.
E173
[Poem] "Hobo Song." Hartford
Courant 25 Nov. 1961: 10. Line 13 omitted in poem and language
standardized. In M, in the colloquial
version, as Number Two of "Songs From Santa Fe Night."
E174
[Poem] "Two Figures, One Smoking." Village
Voice 30 Nov. 1961: 16. In RH.
E175
[Poem] "Stroll." Hartford Times 12 Dec. 1961: 26. Written c.1948.
E176
[Poem] "House of Buttons." Village
Voice 14 Dec. 1961: 20. In RH as title poem of second half of
volume.
E177
[Poem] "A Song of the Sea." Kansas
City Times 26 Dec. 1961: 42. Written c.1948.
E178
[Poem] "Not One Hour." Prairie
Schooner 35.4 (Winter 1961/62): 329. In M.
E179
[Poem] "Rumshinsky's Hat." Fiddlehead 51 (Winter 1961/62): 26-27. In RH and BB.
1962
E180
[Poem] "End of a Semester." Epos
14.2 (Winter 1962): 17. Reprinted in Florida Education (December 1964): 18. In RH.
E181
[Poem] "The Rising in the Warsaw
Ghetto." Polish Review 7.1 (Winter 1962): 75-76. In M as introductory poem and in BB.
E182
[Poem] "At the Railing." New York Herald Tribune 19 January 1962: 18. In RH.
E183
[Poem] "Moses at the Well." Sunday Oregonian 21 January 1962: 11. In M, untitled, as part of Section One of
the title poem, and in BB.
E184
[Poem] "A Man Is On the Hill Again." Village Voice 8 February 1962: 4. Written following a political attack on
liberal attorney Mark Lane as reported in the New York press. In RH.
E185
[Poem] "People." The Lyric 42.2 (Spring 1962):
48. In RH.
E186
[Poem] "Epitaph." Hartford Courant 3 March 1962: 10. In RH.
E187
[Article] "Starting From San
Francisco." Village Voice 15 March 1962: 5-6. Review of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's volume of the
same title (New Directions, 1961).
E188
[Poem] "Winter Song." Kansas City Star 18 March 1962: 10D. Set to music by Serge Hovey as "Under
a Willow."
E189
[Poem] "Song of the Wind." Hartford Courant 14 April 1962: 14. In M, untitled, as Number Three of "Songs From Santa Fe
Night."
E190
[Poem] "Dialogue." National Weekly Poetry-Letter 1.1 (16 April 1962): 10. In RH.
E191
[Poem] "And Moses Said." Denver Post 22 April 1962: 31. In M,
untitled, as part of Section Four of the title poem, and in BB.
E192
[Poem] "The Bay." New York Times 15 May 1962: 38. In RH.
E193
[Poem] "The Count." The Lyric 42.3 (Summer 1962): 69.
In RH.
E194
[Poem] "Gray Song." New Athenaeum Summer 1962: 32. In RH as "Autumnal."
E195
[Poem] "To a Frowning Friend." American Bard 15.3 (Summer 1962): 7. In RH.
E196
[Short story] "Arrival." Adelphi Quarterly 5.4 (Summer 1962): 66-75.
E197
[Translation] "Fair," by Rainer Maria
Rilke. Adelphi Quarterly 5.4 (Summer 1962): 85-89. From the German. In VC.
E198
[Poem] "On a Museum Postcard." Adelphi Quarterly 5.4 (Summer 1962): 90. In RH as "Lines on a Museum
Postcard." From "Letter to My
Sister." Other segments published
include G233, G273, "The Hudson" in TC, and "Depression" in
WP.
E199
[Poem] "Tidings From Spain." Village Voice 7 June 1962: 8. Written at news of student and labor unrest in several Spanish
cities, the first since Franco took power.
In RH.
E200
[Poem] "Freedom Song." Hartford Courant 9 June 1962: 10. In M, as the opening song of "Into Freedom," Section IV of the title poem, and in BB.
E201
[Poem] "And I Looked, and, Behold, a
Whirlwind." Village Voice
21 June 1962: 10. Written in reaction
to the extraordinary proliferation of family bomb-shelters throughout the
United States. In RH.
E202
[Article] "Uncommon Speech of
Paradise." Village Voice 28 June 1962: 9. Review of The Jacob's Ladder by Denise Levertov (New
Directions). In BB as "The
Jacob's Ladder, by Denise Levertov: A Review."
E203
[Poem] "Not Rain." Kansas City Times 9 July 1962: 32. Part of "Peace Cantata" (1949), set to music by
Waldemar Hille.
E204
[Poem] "To a Mocking Star." Kansas City Times 19 July 1962:
10D. Written c.1948.
E205
[Poem] "Preface." Hartford Times 26 July 1962: 30. Line 5 should begin second quatrain; here it
is part of first stanza. Written
c.1948.
E206
[Poem] "Softly." Village Voice 26 July 1962: 13. In RH.
E207
[Poem] "The Well." Denver Post (Empire Magazine) 29 July
1962: 31. See Nocturne (Spring
1951) for first publication as Part One of "Love Song." Written c.1946.
E208
[Poem] "Still Life." Denver Post (Empire Magazine) 12
August 1962: [np] See Nocturne
(Spring 1951) for first publication as Part Two of "Love Song." In M.
E209
[Poem] "Skirmish." Kansas City Times 17 August 1962: 32.
E210
[Poem] "Event." Bitterroot 1.1
(Fall 1962): 6. Includes extensive
mispunctuations. Correct text in RH.
E211
[Poem] "Vacancy Filled." The Lyric 42.4 (Fall 1962): 98. In
RH.
E212
[Poem] "Waiting Room." San Francisco Review 1.13 (September 1962): 17-18. In RH.
E213
[Poem] "On the Mall." Hartford Courant 8 September 1962:
12. Error: "clear" should
begin line 14; instead it ends line 13.
Orginally intended as part of "Central Park," but not included
in the group in TGNS. Written c.1947.
E214
[Poem] "Serenade." Hartford Courant 15 September 1962:
10. Orginally intended as part of
"Serenade" group in GT, but not included. Written c.1948.
E215
[Poem] "Mercutio." Village Voice 20 September 1962:
17. Written during the height of the
Cold War. In RH.
E216
[Poem] "Night Song." Hartford Times 25 September 1962:
26. Written c.1948.
E217
[Poem] "Proving Ground." Denver Post (Empire Magazine) 11
November 1962: 18. Written c.1946.
E218
[Poems] "Dedications." NYU Square Journal 19 November 1962:
8. Includes "Mountain
Ballad," "Dem Days an' Now" (Parts Five and Two from "Songs
From Santa Fe Night"), "Remembrance" (#6 of "Eight Sioux
Songs), in M and "A Word of Thanks," and "Love Song." Only the last two belong to
"Dedications," in M and BB.
E219
[Poems] "Songs From Heavenly
Express." NYU Square Journal
19 November 1962: [np] Includes
"Southboun'," "Lament," in M; "The Rising in the
Warsaw Ghetto," and "Hindsight," in M and BB. Only the first poem belongs to the
"Songs From Heavenly Express" group. "Heavenly Express" was
the original title of "Santa Fe Night."
E220
[Poem] "Songs of the Fading Sioux." NYU Square Journal 19 November 1962:
[np] Under this heading appears one
poem, "To the River," actually #5 of "Eight Sioux
Songs." In M.
E221
[Poem] "November Morning." New York Herald Tribune 22 November
1962: 22. In RH.
E222
[Poem] "Foghorns." Kansas City Star 28 November 1962:
22. Written c.1947.
E223
[Poem] "Swan in Harlem River." Village Voice 22 November 1962:
20. In RH.
E224
[Poem] "At the River." Bitterroot 1.2 (Winter 1962): 13. In
RH.
E225
[Poems] "Poems by Aaron Kramer." Arts and Sciences (NYU) 1.2 (Winter 1962/63): 28. Includes "Do You Suppose,"
"Johnny Was Here," and "Reunion." In RH.
E226
[Poem] "Mr. Lucky and the Wind." Fiddlehead 55 (Winter 1962/63): 46-48.
First identified appearance of Kramer's persona, subsequently named Mr.
Glcklich, Mr. Glicklich, and Fortunato, but often
unnamed, as in "And Yet...," "Softly," "Hymn,"
"Joy," and other poems. In RH
and BB.
1963
E227
[Poem] "Crossing." The Lyric 43.1 (Winter 1963): 7.
E228
[Poem] "But Suddenly...." Village Voice 31 January 1963:
28. In RH.
E229
[Poem] "A Convocation Sonnet for Adelphi
Suffolk College." Program (Special Convocation dedicating Adelphi
Suffolk College and installing Paul Dawson Eddy, Jr. as Dean of the College) 9
Feb. 1963: [np]
E230
[Review] "Yevtushenko: Selected
Poems." Village Voice 14
February 1963: 15, 18. Review of Selected
Poems by Yevtushenko (Dutton, 1962).
On p.18 appears a note about Kramer's public reading of Yevtushenko's
poems at the Judson Community Center, New York City, NY that week.
E231
[Poem] "A Convocation
Day Sonnet" New Voice
[Adelphi Suffolk College] 22 Mar. 1963:
3. Reprint of Kramer sonnet distributed
at 9 Feb. 1963 Adelphi Suffolk College convocation.
E232
[Poem] "Victory." Bitteroot 1.3 (Spring 1963): 25. In
RH.
E233
[Poem] "Discovered." Village Voice 4 April 1963: 4. In RH, as middle sonnet of
"Fire!!"
E234
[Poem] "Driving Blind." Kansas City Times 13 April 1963:
38. In RH.
E235
[Poem] "Listen, Death." Hartford Times 30 April 1963:
14. Written c.1954.
E236
[Poem] "Visitor." Hartford Courant 18 May 1963: 14. In RH and BB as "Letter to My
Sister."
E237
[Poem] "Short Letter to a Long
Runner." Village Voice 23
May 1963: 4. Tribute to Yevtushenko,
then under attack by the Soviet press for "Babi Yar". See I23.
In RH.
E238
[Essay] "The Death of Cleopatra." Adelphi Quarterly 6.4 (Summer 1963):
20-24.
E239
[Poem] "The Game." Adelphi Quaterly 6.4 (Summer 1963):
64. In RH.
E240
[Poem] "A New Day." Fiddlehead 57 (Summer 1963): 64. In
RH as "The First Day."
E241
[Poem] "Questions." Bitterroot 1.4 (Summer 1963): 15. A
group of haiku. In RH.
E242
[Poem] "12:35 Express." Massachusetts Review 4.4 (Summer 1963): 694-95. In RH.
E243
[Poem] "The Game." Hartford Courant 20 July 1963:
10. In RH.
E244
[Poem] "Prayer." Kansas City Star 4 August 1963: 12D.
E245
[Poem] "Pompeii." Village Voice 29 August 1963:
16. In RH.
E246
[Poems] "Poems." Poet Lore 43.3
(Fall 1963): 287-88. Includes
"Four Nocturnes" (287) a group of haiku, in RH; "Miriam Dances
at the Sea" (288), in M as part of the title poem's epilogue, and in BB;
and "Nocturne" (288), in RH as "Midsummer."
E247
[Poems] "Poems." Carleton Miscellany
4.4 (Fall 1963): 60-61. Includes
"In the Middle of the Show" (60), in RH; and "To Himself"
(61), in RH and (a large excerpt) in several editions of Who's Who in
America.
E248
[Poem] "Inheritance." Fiddlehead 58 (Fall 1963): 20-25.
Written c.1958. In RH and BB.
E249
[Poem] "Not Just Now." University of Kansas City Review 30.1 (Fall 1963): 18. In RH.
E250
[Poem] "Riddle." Poet Lore 43.3 (Autumn 1963): 287-88.
E251
[Translation] "Wedding Song," by Heinrich
Heine. Bitterroot 2.5 (Fall 1963): 15. From the German. In GSH as "Das ist ein Flten und Geigen."
E252
[Poem] "From a Shatterproof Window." Kansas City Times 5 October 1963:
46. In RH.
E253
[Poem] "Change of Address." Hartford Courant 26 October 1963:
10. In RH as second sonnet of
"Moving Day."
E254
[Poem] "Red Light." Kansas City Times 18 November 1963: 38. Error in line 14: "rent" for
"red." Written c.1956.
E255
[Poem] "The Concert." Kansas City Times 23 November 1963:
12D. Error in last line:
"voils" for "viols."
E256
[Poem] "The Ledge." Village Voice 12 December 1963:
28. In RH.
E257
[Poem] "Christmas in New York
Hospital." Bitterroot 2.6 (Winter 1963): 10. Written c.1948.
E258
[Poem] "In the Swamp." Epos
15.2 (Winter 1963/64): 11. In
RH.
1964
E259
[Poem] "The Party." The Lyric 44.1 (Winter 1964): 3.
First line: "On the way to the artichokes"
E260
[Poem] "The Great Stone Face." Denver Post 19 January 1964: 16. In RH.
E261
[Poem] "Dogs." Denver Post 2 February 1964: 13. In RH.
E262
[Poem] "Lost Land." Arts and Sciences (NYU), Spring 1964:
18. In New York University Bulletin
series, as 64.25 (22 June 1964). In RH.
E263
[Poem] "Night at Zion Lodge." Poet (Madras, India) 5.2-3 (March
1964): 12. In RH.
E264
[Poem] "Des Moines." Adelphi Quarterly 7.4 (Summer 1964): 20-21. In OGL.
E265
[Poem] "Portrait By Alice Neel." Poetry Northwest 5.2 (Summer 1964): 35. See dust jacket of A16 for reproduction of
the portrait. In RH.
E266
[Poem] "Escapade." Poetry Northwest 5.2 (Summer 1964): 36-37. In RH.
E267
[Poem] "His Something." New York Times 4 July 1964: [np] In WP.
E268
[Poem] "The New Day." Kansas City Times 29 July 1964:
26. Errors: line 5 should begin the
second stanza; line 9 should begin the concluding sestet. Written at the death of Kramer's friend,
Samuel Zagat, the distinguished Yiddish cartoonist. In WP. See D10.
E269
[Poem] "Blues for Medgar Evers." Freedomways 4.4 (Fall 1964): 487. In
HG.
E270
[Poem] "For a Distant Poet (for Boris
Pasternak)." Bitterroot,
3.9 (Fall 1964): 22. Written upon the
publication of Doctor Zhivago outside the Soviet Union only. In BB as "The Swan," with middle
stanza omitted.
E271
[Translation] "Draguza's Song," by David Seltzer
(1904- ). Bitterroot 3.9 (Fall 1964): 27. From the Yiddish. Translated c.1948.
Another of Seltzer's Bessarabian Songs, "Silent
Warrior," was the first of Kramer's published translations. In GM.
E272
[Poem] "Outside Milan's Cathedral." Breakthru 17 (1964/65): 22. Written
in 1956 as part of "Love Song for Milan". In RH.
1965
E273
[Poem] "Rendezvous." Fiddlehead 63 (Winter 1965): 63. In
RH.
E274
[Poem] "On the Death of a Dog." Bitterroot 3.11 (Spring 1965): 26.
In WP as "The Death of a Dog."
E275
[Poem] "Calvary." Adelphi Quarterly 8.4 (Summer 1965): 72. Written in response to the murder of three
young civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. In HG and, as "A Ballad of Jesus",
in WP.
1966
E276
[Poem] "Depression." Carleton Miscellany 7.2 (Spring 1966): 82-83. From "Letter to My Sister". In WP.
E277
[Poem] "A Life Sets." Carleton Miscellany 7.2 (Spring 1966): 83. For Kramer's colleague, the brilliant
Romantic scholar Stephen Fogle, then dying.
In WP.
E278
[Poem] "The Party." Bitterroot 4.15 (Spring 1966), 31.
First line: "That was an A-1 party!"
E279
[Poem] "Niagara." New York Times 13 March 1966:
10E. In WP.
E280
[Poems] "Softening" and
"Jeremiah." Adelphi
Quarterly 9.4 (Summer 1966):
84-85. "Softening" in CP and
"Jeremiah" in IWT
E281
[Poem] "To the Countrymen of Alfred Kreymborg." The Villager 18 August 1966: 5. Written two weeks earlier after Kramer's
last visit with his dying friend.
Included in The Villager's memorial article titled: "In
Memoriam: Alfred Kreymborg" In HG
and WP.
E282
[Poem] "Neruda in Hiding." American Dialog 3.3 (November/December 1966): 9. Reprinted at the journal's invitation, after
a PEN reception at which Neruda asked Kramer to read the poem, and had then
inscribed his book "Con amistad para Aaron Kramer, poeta a quiera le debo
un poema. 1966. N.York June '6".
Pete Seeger's setting of the poem followed almost immediately. In GT.
1967
E283
[Poem] "The College." The Lyric 47.1 (Winter 1967): 14.
Written c.1960.
E284
[Poem] "To the People of Vietnam." Freedomways 7.1 (Winter 1967): 15.
Also in Adelphi Quarterly
10.4 (Summer 1967): 81. In HG as
"To a Dark-Skinned People."
E285
[Poem] "Heavy With Ghost." Bitterroot 5.19 (Spring 1967): 9. In
BB as "For My Grandmother: Part I."
E286
[Poem] "Softening." Carleton Miscellany 8.2 (Spring 1967): 98. In CP.
E287
[Poems] "Memories of My Father (d. February 6,
1947)." Jewish Currents 21.3 (March 1967): 18-21. Includes "Tidings" (18); "The
Last Time I Ever Was Carried" (18-19), in WP; "Depression Game"
(19), in WP as "Depression;" "The Sport" (19-20), in BB as
opening poem in the "Uncles" group; "The Blank Page in My
Mother's Album" (20-21); and "Legacy" (21), in BB. The first three poems appear grouped in BB
as "Memories of My Father."
The last two poems were written in 1956 as part of a group for Kramer's
mother's 60th birthday.
E288
[Poem] "Cadenza." The Lyric 47.3 (Summer 1967): 55.
In WP.
E289
[Poem] "The Favor" Poet Lore 62.2 (Summer 1967): 169-170.
In WP and BB.
E290
[Poem] "St. Nicholas Avenue Blues." Freedomways 7.3 (Summer 1967): 239. A
memorial tribute to Langston Hughes.
E291
[Translation] "Venice," by Rainer Maria
Rilke. University of Denver
Quarterly 2.2 (Summer 1967):
111-14. From the German. In VC.
E292
[Poems] "The Wells of Java" and "To a
Dark-Skinned People." Adelphi Quarterly 10.4 (Summer 1967): 80-81.
In HG.
E293
[Poem] "Driving to Gay Head." Fiddlehead 73 (Fall 1967): 49-50. In
WP.
E294
[Poem] "Rereading Robert Burns." The Lyric 47.4 (Fall 1967): 94. In
WP.
E295
[Poem] "Awakening." Bitterroot 6.22 (Winter 1967/68): 25.
1968
E296
[Essay] "Robert Burns and Langston
Hughes." Freedomways 8.2 (Spring
1968): 159-66. In NAP.
E297
[Poems] "Poems" Lyrismos 2.3
(Spring 1968): 6-7. Includes "The
Death of a Grandmother" (6), in BB as Part 2 of "For My
Grandmother"; "Epitaph" (6); "Sweet Whisper" (6);
"The Waterbug" (7); and "Joy" (7), in HG and WP.
E298
[Poem] "To Dream of Bridges." The Lyric 48.2 (Spring 1968): 39.
Revised version in WP.
E299
[Translation] "There Once Was a House," by Dora
Teitelboim. The Polish Review
13.2 (Spring 1968): 58-62. From
the Yiddish. Reprinted as a pamphlet
later that year. In AMY and LL.
E300
[Poem] "Fable." New York Times 4 March 1968: 36. Should be two quatrains, but published here without a stanza
break.
E301
[Poem] "A Kiss." Kansas City Times 23 March 1968: 16C.
E302
[Poem] "At Rest." Bitterroot 6.24 (Summer 1968): 26.
E303
[Poems] "War Poems." Adelphi Quarterly 11.4 (Summer 1968): 46-48. Includes "Considering My Country"
(46), "Newscast" (47), and "Henry at the Grating"
(48). All in HG and WP.
E304
[Translations] "Three Poems by Abraham Reisen
(1876-1953)." Midstream
14.6 (June/July 1968): 63-64.
From the Yiddish. Includes:
"You Ask" (63), "There Once Was" (64), "From One Side
of the World" (64), and a short prose note by Kramer on Reisen's life and
work. "my" should be omitted from line 1 of "You Ask." In AR, and just the last translation in CYP.
E305
[Poem] "Night at the Concertgebouw." Midstream 14.9 (November 1968): 33-34.
In G, WP, and BB. In musical
settings Pauline Konstantin and Irwin Hielman title changed to "The Ghost[s]
of Amsterdam".
E306
[Poem] "Homecoming." New York Times 15 December 1968:
12E. In WP and BB.
1969
E307
[Poem] "Adventure." Carleton Miscellany 10.1 (Winter 1969): 88-89. In WP and BB.
E308
[Poem] "A North Sea Ballad." The Lyric 49.1 (Winter 1969): 11.
E309
[Poem] "To See." Bitterroot 7.26 (Winter 1969): 31.
Errors: line 1, "ii" for "in"; line 3,
"sick" for "sink".
In WP as "Nocturnes: III."
E310
[Poems] "Three Brooklyn Vignettes." Midstream 15.1 (January 1969): 22-23.
Includes "Subway Carving" (22), in WP; "Sophie"
(23), in BB as "Sonya"; and
"Morning" (23), in WP and BB.
E311
[Poems] "Poems." Lyrismos 3.1
(Spring 1969): 1-3. "Three Airs
for Bagpipe" includes "From Carlisle North to Edinburgh" (1), in
WP as "Air for Bagpipe"; "Behold, the Success of Burns'
Style!" (1), in IND as "Air for Bagpipe"; and "I Know a
Poet" (1), which pertains to Hugh MacDiarmid; "bigger/ than the mean
town" is a punning reference to Biggar, Lanarkshire, MacDiarmid's home,
visited by Kramer in 1968. The town was
"mean" because, according to MacDiarmid's wife, they had never been invited
into the home of any neighbor. Also
includes "Nocturne" (1), "Loss" (2); and "Suddenly I
Find Myself" (2-3) in WP. Kramer
is featured poet in this issue.
E312
[Review] "Sillitoe, Alan. Love in the
Environs of Voronezh." Library Journal 94.5 (1 March 1969): 1001. Review of Sillitoe's volume of the same
title published by Doubleday.
E313
[Review] "Mahon, Derek. Night-Crossing." Library Journal 94.7 (1 April 1969): 1504. Review of Mahon's volume of the same title
published by Oxford University Press.
E314
[Review] "Koehler,
Stanley. The Fact of Fall."
Library Journal 94.8 (15 April 1969): 1638. Review of Koehler's
volume of the same title published by University of Massachusetts Press.
E315
[Review] "Wilbur, Richard. Walking to Sleep." Library Journal 94.8 (15 April 1969): 1639. Review of Wilbur's volume of the same title
published by Harcourt.
E316
[Review] "Berg, Stephen & Robert Mezey, eds.
Naked Poetry...." Library Journal 94.10 (15 May 1969): 1996-97.
Review of Berg and Mezey's Naked Poetry: Recent American Poetry in
Open Forms published by Bobbs.
E317
[Review] "Southam. B.C. A Guide to the
Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot."
Library Journal 94.10 (15
May 1969): 1194. Review of Southam's
volume of the same title published by Harcourt.
E318
[Poem] "Poor." The Lyric 49.3
(Summer 1969): 56.
E319
[Poem] "Not Being Yevtushenko." Midstream 15.6 (June 1969): 63. In
WP.
E320
[Review] "Unterecker, John. Voyager...." Library Journal 94.12 (June 1969): 2462. Review of Unterecker's Voyager: A Life of
Hart Crane published by Farrar.
E321
[Review] "Amichai, Yehuda. Poems." Library Journal 94.13 (July 1969): 2619. Review of Amichai's volume of the same title
published by Harper.
E322
[Review] "Olson, Charles. Maximus Poems IV,
V, VI." Library Journal 94.13 (July 1969): 2619. Review of Olson's volume of the same title
published by Grossman.
E323
[Poem] "Taormina." New York Times 26 July 1969: 24. In WP.
E324
[Poems] "Message to Major Kasler" and
"To a Dark-Skinned People." Broadside 101 (August/September 1969):5. In HG.
E325
[Poem] "A Hundred Planets." The Lyric 49.4 (Fall 1969): 90-91.
Winner of the Hart Crane Memorial Award and the Virginia Award,
1969. One of the ten Kramer poems set to
music by Eugene Glickman in "Children's Suite."
E326
[Poem] "Tour." Midstream 15.8
(October 1969): 72-73. In G, and
slightly revised in WP and BB.
E327
[Poem] "Wandersong." Broadside 102 (October/November 1969): 7.
In HG and WP.
1970
E328
[Poems] "Sarajevo" and "The Statue in
Split." Modern Poetry Studies 1.6 (1970): 302-303. In WP.
E329
[Poems] "Advice to Drivers" and "To a
Failing Poet." Lyrismos 4.1
(Winter 1969/70): 7. "To a Failing
Poet" line 20 should read: "waken shall her courtiers."
E330
[Poem] "Vera." Carleton Miscellany
10.1 (Winter 1970): 81-82.
E331
[Poem] "Overpasses." Carleton Miscellany 10.1 (Winter 1970): 88-89. In WP.
E332
[Poem] "Reading the Tribune on Arno's
Shore." The Lyric 50.1 (Winter 1970): 3.
E333
[Poem] "Evening." Midstream 16.3 (March 1970): 60. In
BB.
E334
[Essay] "Yiddish Poetry, the First Golden
Age." Midstream 16.4 (April 1970): 16-26. Includes many passages of poems in Kramer's
translations. Rejecting the editor's invitation
to review Howe and Greenberg's newly published anthology (see D25) since he was
among its translators, Kramer was then asked for this essay in which he charges
Howe with misrepresenting Yiddish poetry.
E335
[Poem] "Daybreak." The Lyric 50.3 (Summer 1970): 64-65.
In WP.
E336
[Poem] "After the Tour." Mediterranean Review 1.1 (Fall 1970): 66-67. Error: line 28, "yes" for
"eyes." In WP.
E337
[Review] "First Collection of Genuine New
Voice." Freedomways 10.3
(Fall 1970): 279-83. Review of 26
Ways of Looking at a Black Man by Raymond Patterson, published by
Universal.
E338
[Review] "Gibson, Donald B., ed. Five Black
Writers...." Library Journal
95.16 (15 September 1970): 2918.
Review of Gibson's Five Black Writers: Essays on Wright, Ellison,
Baldwin, Hughes, and LeRoi Jones published by New York University Press.
E339
[Poem] "Zudioska." Midstream 16.8 (October 1970): 42-43.
In G. Revised version in CP and
BB. Title-poem of second half of CP.
1971
E340
[Poems] "Poems." Modern Poetry Studies
2.3 (1971): 127-29. Includes
"Old Couples" (127), in WP; "On the Phone" (128), in WP and
BB as "Phone Call"; and "Fire" (128-29), in IND.
E341
[Poem] "Piazza del Campidoglio." Mediterranean Review 1.2 (Winter 1971): 99-101. Errors: line 10, "bookstores"
instead of "shoestores" and line 161, "gave" instead of
"gaze." Revised version in
CP.
E342
[Poem] "A Good Buy." Carleton Miscellany 11.4 (Spring/Summer 1971): 58-59. In WP.
E343
[Poem] "Visions." Midstream 17.3 (March 1971): 20. A
tribute to Osip Mandelstam. In WP and
BB.
E344
[Poem] "Prothalamium (Wedding
Song)." Dowling College News
& Views 2.2 (Summer 1971):
[5]. In TG and TC as the fifth sonnet
in "Astoria." Reprinted to
accompany a notice of the recording of Michael Sahl's setting by Judy Collins
on Whales and Nightingales. See
I54.
E345
[Review] "Focus on Literature." Dowling College News & Views 2.2 (Summer 1971): [4]. Review of The Crow Island Journal by
Clinton W. Trowbridge (Harper, 1970).
E346
[Poems] "Storm" and "Rain
Song." The Lyric 51.3 (Summer 1971): 65. "Storm" is one of the ten poems in
Eugene Glickman's Children's Suite (see I47) and "Rain Song"
is the first part of Michael Cherry's When I Was Eight (see I132).
E347
[Translations] "Three Translations." Modern Poetry Studies 2.5 (1971): 201, 203, 207-208. Includes "Dark Will be the Danube's
Breast," (201) by Ern Szp (1887-1953); "Star Ablaze," (203) by Gyula Illys (1902- ?);
and "The Lyric Poet's Epilogue," (207-08) by Mihly Babits (1883-1941). From the
Hungarian.
E348
[Poem] "Justice in Chelm." Jewish Frontier 38.7 (July/August 1971): 8. Section Two of the published libretto for
Eugene Glickman's madrigal comedy Chelm. In BB.
E349
[Poem] "Attica in the Suburbs." Freedomways 11.4 (Fourth Quarter, 1971): 372-73. In CP.
E350
[Poems] "Gypsy Moths on Long Island" and
"Ghosts." Arion's Dolphin 1.1 (Fall 1971): 19-21. "Gypsy Moths..." in WP as
"Gypsy Moths in the Suburbs"
in WP and "Ghosts" in WP and BB.
E351
[Review] "Ruark, Gibbons. A Program for Survival." Library Journal 96.15 (1 September 1971): 2649-50. Review of Ruark's volume of the same title,
published by the University Press of Virginia.
E352
[Review] "Squires, Radcliffe. Allen Tate: A Literary Biography." Library Journal 96.17 (1 October 1971): 3138. Review of Squires' volume of the same title
published by Pegasus: Bobbs
E353
[Poem] "On Windy Noons." Midstream 17.9 (November 1971): 31.
In WP and BB.
E354
[Review] "T.S. Eliot: A Memoir." Library Journal 96.20 (15 November 1971): 3750. Review of the volume of the same title by
Robert Sencourt, published by Dodd, Mead.
E355
[Poem] "The New Home." The Free Lance 15.1&2 (1971/72): 96-97. In IND and IWT.
1972
E356
[Poems] "Quebec" and "At
Home." Modern Poetry Studies 3.2 (1972): 74-76. "Quebec" (74-75), in CP and "At Home " (76)
in BB. Written c.1967.
E357
[Poems] "At Night" and "Taormina Dawn." Bitterroot 10.38 (Winter 1972): 6.
"At Night," in WP and "Taormina Dawn," in IWT. In WP
the last six lines become the four concluding lines of Section Eight of "On
the Way to Palermo."
E358
[Review] "The Testing Tree." Mediterranean Review 2.2 (Winter 1972): 40-41. Review of Stanley Kunitz's work of the same
title (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1971).
Critical printing error corrected in the next issue: "no"
originally omitted in conclusion, which should read: "There is no question
of his triumph as a poet and a man." A portion of the article appears in Contemporary
Literary Criticism 2 (1976):
287. In BB as "The Testing Tree,
by Stanley Kunitz: A Review."
E359
[Translation] "To a Snowflake," by Abraham
Reisen. Bitterroot, 11.38
(Winter 1972): 11. From the
Yiddish. In AR and CYP.
E360
[Poem] "Combing." Mediterranean Review 2.3 (Spring 1972): 90-91. In WP.
E361
[Review] "In the Mourning Time." Mediterranean Review 2.3 (Spring 1972): 59-61. Review of Robert Hayden's volume of the same
title.
E362
[Poems] "Poems." Renaissance Faire
1.2 (Spring 1972): 32-37.
Includes: "Midnight in Brussels" (32), in CP as "Last
Night in Brussels;" "A Drowning" (32), in WP; "Cardiff Harbor"
(33), in WP; and a group titled "O Golden Land," including: "The
Baseball Game (Cleveland)" (33), "Ogalalla" (34), "Mormon
Graveyard (Omaha)" (35), "Little America (Wyoming)" (36), and
"The Opposing Gods (Salt Lake City)" (37), all in OGL.
E363
[Poem] "Secret." Bitterroot 11.39 (Spring 1972): 4.
An acrostic for Daisy Aldan, a poet whose career Kramer helped
begin. The word "daisy"
should appear as a separate line, the eighth.
E364
[Poem] "Moving Away." New York Times 25 March 1972:
30. In WP and BB.
E365
[Review] "Sobiloff, Hy. Hooting Across the Silence." Library Journal 97.7 (1 April 1972): 1329. Review of Sobiloff's volume of the same
title published by Horizon Press.
E366
[Poem] "When Our Children March." Epos
23.4 (Summer 1972): 6-7.
"To the Eternal No-Nothing Party."
E367
[Translations] "World and Men" and "All the
Islands," by Abraham Reisen. Bitterroot 10.40 (Summer 1972): 38. From the Yiddish. In AR.
E368
[Translation] "I Walk Alone," by Isaac E.
Ronch. Poet (Madras, India) 13.7 (July 1972): 214-15. From the Yiddish. Published under Kramer's pseudonym: Ira Mark.
E369
[Essay] "One Group." Renaissance Faire 2.1 (Fall 1972): 3-6. Excerpt from a diary of poetry sessions at
Central Islip State Hospital, Central Islip, NY 11722 for May 1971, followed by
five poems discussed in the diary.
E370
[Poems] "Poems." Renaissance Faire
2.1 (Fall 1972): 35-36. Includes
"The Last Supper" (35), in CP; "The Visits of Cousins"
(36), in BB; "Next" (36); and "No-one Makes His Rounds"
(36).
E371
[Translation] "A Word," by Abraham Reisen. Bitterroot 11.41 (Fall 1972): 24.
From the Yiddish. In AR.
E372
[Review] "Rilke, R.M., Duino Elegies,
translated by S. Garmey & J. Wilson."
Library Journal 97.20 (15
November 1972): 3716-17. Mutilated
version of Kramer's review, making his negative response seem favorable.
1973
E373
[Poems] "Three Poems." Modern Poetry Studies 4.3 (Winter 1973): 281-284. Includes "Glasses" (281), in CP
and BB; "Mr. Glicklich Takes a Shower" (281-82), in CP and BB; and
"Crossing" (282-84), written c.1965.
E374
[Translation] "The Promise," by Abraham
Reisen. Bitterroot 11.43 (Spring 1973): 34. In AR and CYP.
E375
[Review] "Logan, John. The Anonymous Lover." Library Journal 98.11 (1 June 1973): 1824. Mutilated version of Kramer's review. Kramer protested and only one more of his
reviews appeared in Library Journal.
None of his own later books was ever reviewed by the periodical. Logan's volume published by Liveright,
distributed by Dutton.
E376
[Poem] "Message to Zeus." The Lyric 53.4 (Fall 1973): 84.
Revised version set to music by Waldemar Hille as "Song of
Prometheus."
E377
[Poem] "Nightsong." Epos
25.1 (Autumn 1973): 13.
E378
[Memoir] "Miss Bynoe." Renaissance Faire 3.1 (Fall 1973): 3-5. Section of an unpublished autobiographical
novel: It Hurt Till I Laughed.
Kramer's program of tribute to his first grade teacher was reported,
with a photo, in the New York Times on 12 June 1974.
E379
[Poems] "Poems." Renaissance Faire
3.1 (Fall 1973): 17-18. Includes
"Invocation" (17), "North Platte" (18), and "A Vision
of Lincoln (Not the President)" (18).
All in OGL.
E380
[Translation] "Partisan Hymn: Never Say," by
Hirsch Glik [sic]. Aleicham Sholem:
Official Publication of the Student Committee for Yiddish 1.4 (October 1973): 3. From the Yiddish. English and Yiddish texts provided. Divided into prose paragraphs instead of stanzas. In CYP and M.
E381
[Review] "Blake, Howard. The Island Self." Library Journal 96.18 (15 October 1973): 3006. Review of Blake's volume of the same title,
published by David Godine. Kramer's
last review for Library Journal.
1974
E382
[Essay] "Poetry as a Means of Group
Facilitation." Journal of
Humanistic Psychology 14.1 (Winter
1974): 57-71. Written with Dr. Lucien A.
Buck of Dowling College. Revised
version of a paper presented at Poetry Therapy Day, Cumberland Medical Center,
Brooklyn, NY 11205 on 7 April 1972.
Original title: "The Sidewalk Meets the Street."
E383
[Poem] "Elegy for a Room." Renaissance Faire 3.3 (Spring 1974): 2. A response to the fire that almost destroyed
Dowling College that winter. Also
privately printed by Friends of the Library, Dowling College, Spring 1974.
E384
[Poem] "The Pigeons of Maspeth (for Arthur
Kevess)." Renaissance Faire 3.3 (Spring 1974): 24. Error in first line of last stanza:
"firewords" for "fireworks." In CP. Kramer read this
elegy at the funeral of Kevess, a friend since 1937/38 when both were members
of the Young Labor Poets, a Manhattan workshop group conducted by Eli Siegel.
E385
[Poem] "The Beach: St. Petersburg." Bitterroot 13.44-48 (Summer 1974): 16.
E386
[Poem] "Ghost in a Slavic Land." riverrun 1.1 (Fall 1974): 16.
These fourteen lines also appear as the second portion of "Zadar by
Day; Grodno by Night," part 2 of "Three Yugoslav Sketches" (see
G385) and in BB as Part 3 of "For My Grandmother."
E387
[Poem] "One Year the Leaves Were
Late." riverrun 1.1 (Fall 1974): 34. In IWT. Revised version in IND.
E388
[Poem] "Three Yugoslav Sketches." Icarus 2.3 (Fall 1974): 10-12.
Includes: "Reaching Dubrovnik" (10), in IND and in IWT as Part
1 of "Yugoslav Sketches"; "Zadar by Day; Grodno by Night"
(11), in BB as part three of "For My Grandmother," titled "Ghost
in a Slavic Land"; and "The Word" (12), in IND and in IWT as
Part 2 of "Yugoslav Sketches."
E389
[Translation] "Hopes," by Abraham Reisen. Bitterroot 13.49 (Autumn 1974): 49.
From the Yiddish. In AR and CYP.
E390
[Poem] "Rochdale Village." Bitterroot 13.50 (Winter 1974): 20. In BB, as part 4 of Section Two of a
greatly expanded "Carousel Parkway."
E391
[Poems] "Three Poems." Modern Poetry Studies 5.3 (Winter 1974): 213-15. Includes "The Month Is Ripening"
(213), in CP; "The Redwing's Cry" (214), in CP; and "My
Sheepshead."
E392
[Poems] "Poems." Icarus 2.4 (Winter
1974/75): [1]-3. Includes "The
Bird Feed (January 12, 1972)" (1), in IS as "The Bird Feed";
"The First Time" (2); and "On the Basement Stairs" (3) in
RE. The first poem is a response to the
deaths of John Berryman and Kenneth Patchen.
E393
[Poem] "The Tourist." The Free Lance 17.1&2 (1974/75): 31. In IND.
1975
E394
[Poem] "Forebodings." Carleton Miscellany 15.1 (Winter 1975): 65. In CP.
E395
[Poems] "Aaron Kramer/ Poems." Islip Arts Review 1.1 [nd]: 15-20. Includes: "Tree" (17), in IND and IS;
"Location" (18), in CP; "Words" (19), in IND and IS; and
"Rain" (20), in CP. The four
poems were published in conjunction with an article about Kramer and his poetry
by editor Mary Lou Cohalan (her name not given). Kramer is not accurately quoted.
Published Spring 1975.
E396
[Poems] "Neruda's
Death" and "A Day in March."
Street Magazine, 1.4 (Spring 1975): [np] First poem somewhat different from original
version recorded on On Freedom's Side, see I81. Final stanzas describe Neruda's reading at
1966 PEN reception, see G281.
E397
[Prose/poem] "Lest We Forget." riverrun 1.2 (Spring 1975): 12-13.
Prose fantasy originally written c.1957, includes a seventy-eight line
poem.
E398
[Poem] "At Four Minutes to One." riverrun 1.2 (Spring 1975): 34. In
CP.
E399
[Translation] "The Emperor of Atlantis; or, Death
Abdicates: a Legend in Four Scenes."
Midstream 21.4 (April
1975): 38-43. Translation from the
German of the libretto by Peter Kien.
Notice on p.38 states: "The world premiere of this opera... will be
given by the Philadelphia Musical Academy in May of this year." A strike at the Academy forced cancellation
of the premiere. Early version, later a
much revised version for 1977 premiere and subsequent productions, the text of
which was distributed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Curtis
Institute, Philadelphi, PA. See I112,
113, 118, 129 for various recordings. A
revised translation in LL.
E400
[Poem] "In the Geneve Lobby: Mexico City." Epos
26.2 (Spring/Summer 1975): 44-45.
25th anniversary issue, titled "Anthology of Epos Poets." In CP.
E401
[Poems] "Reunion" and "After the
Poetry Reading." Xanadu 1.1 (Summer 1975): 5-6. "After the Poetry Reading" (6) in
CP.
E402
[Poem] "T.V. Special." Icarus 3.2 (Summer 1975): 7. In
IND as "Penguintown: TV Special."
E403
[Poem] "Victoria Station." Orbis Summer 1975: 6-9.
Accompanied by Kramer's essay (6-8) explaining his choice of
"Victoria Station" (9) as the "favorite" among his poems. Error on p.85, line 6: "in" for
"into." In CP.
E404
[Poem] "Efharisto." Athens News 19 August 1975: 6. In an accompanying note, the editors tell of
Kramer's longtime involvement with modern Greek poetry and of his refusal to
visit Greece until the junta lost power.
Published on the first anniversary of Greece's return to democracy,
while Kramer was in Athens. Translated
in 1985 as "Hellas" by Harry Ghitakos, Assistant to the Minister of
Culture, and recited in both languages at Syntagma Square, Athens,
concert. Revised version published as a
section of "Fragments of a Greek Tour" in Street Magazine, see
412. Error in line 5: "as"
for "us."
E405
[Poem] "Carousel Parkway." Modern Poetry Studies 6.2 (Autumn 1975): 135-43. In CP and (greatly expanded) in BB.
E406
[Poem] "A Sweet Hour." Bitterroot 8.53 (Autumn 1975): 20.
E407
[Poems] "Back in One's Own Far Bed" and
"Granddaughter on Beach." Icarus 3.4 (Winter 1975): 7. "Granddaughter on Beach" in CP and
BB.
E408
[Poem] "Disappointed Ghosts (For Shaemas
O'Sheel)." Xanadu 1.2 (Winter 1975): 49. With a detailed autobiographical account
involving Maxwell Bodenheim and Alfred Kreymborg, to whom the poem refers. Poem written some years after O'Sheel's
death in 1954.
E409
[Translation] "Upon a Switched-Off Fountain," by
Istvan Simon. Street Magazine
2.1 (1975): [np] From the
Hungarian.
E410
[Translation] "She Who Was Reborn," by Tibor
Tollas. Street Magazine 2.1 (1975): [np] From the Hungarian.
E411
[Translation] "Dandelion," by Frigyes Karinthy
(1888-1938). Street Magazine 2.1
(1975): [np] From the Hungarian.
E412
[Poems] "Fragments of a Greek Tour,
1975." Street Magazine 2.1 (1975): [35]-[37]. Includes: "Two Days," in IND as "O Minos! O
Rhadamanthys" and in IWT as "Fragments of a Greek Tour." "Lunch at Rethymnon,"
"Farewell to Crete" in CP as "Crete: The Farewell,"
"On Brushing One's Shoes in Athens," in IND as "Mycenae: On
Brushing One's Shoes in Athens", and "Efharisto" in a revised
version of E404.
E413
[Translation] "Heinrich Heine," by Moishe Nadir
(1885-1943). Bitterroot 14.54
(Winter 1975/76): 46. From the
Yiddish. Error in line 24:
"you" for "your."
In CYP.
1976
E414
[Memoir] "John Hall Wheelock and Jean Starr
Untermeyer." Long Pond Review January 1976: 22-25. A personal reminiscence.
E415
[Poem] "Picnic Lunch." Long Pond Review January 1976: 42-42.
E416
[Essay] "Poetic Creativity in Deaf
Children." American Annals of
the Deaf 121.1 (February 1976):
31-37. Written with Dr. Lucien A. Buck
of Dowling College. Kramer and Buck's
work with the deaf is further discussed by Buck in "A Human Context for
the Cultivation of Poetic Creativity," Honeycomb (Dowling College
Press, 1976): 23-28.
E417
[Essay] "Encounter at Washington Square." riverrun 2.1 (Spring 1976): 1-2.
Written c.1960.
E418
[Poems] "Pennsylvania Avenue" and
"Biography." riverrun 2.1 (Spring 1976): 27-28. "Pennsylvania Avenue" in BB as
"Primal Street," part of Section II of expanded version of
"Carousel Parkway."
E419
[Poem] "Macedonia: Bussing to
Byzantium." riverrun 2.1 (Spring 1976): 36-37. In CP as "Macedonia." Errors: line 4 "Tepkopi" for
"Topkapi"; line 7 "Yeat's" for "Yeats"; and line
32 "turkey" for "Turkey."
E420
[Poem] "At the Hamptons." Bitterroot 15.55 (Spring 1976): 22.
E421
[Translations] "Neck Upon Neck" and
"Finally," by Moishe Nadir. Bitterroot 15.55 (Spring 1976): 46. From the Yiddish. "Finally" in CYP.
E422
[Poems] "Lament" and "A New
Day." The Lyric 56.2 (Spring 1976): 37. Both poems written c.1962.
E423
[Translations] "New Translations of Ingeborg Bachmann
(1926-1973)." The Denver
Quarterly 11.1 (Spring 1976):
21-47. Translations from the German of
Bachmann's Die Gestundete Zeit, as follows: "Setting Out"
(25,27), "Farewell to England" (27,29), "To Say Dark
Things" (29,31), "Paris" (31), "The Great Freight"
(33), "Roundel" (33), "Autumn Maneuver" (35), "Time
Borrowed"
(35-37), "Wood
Chips" (37-39), and "Early Noon" (39, 41, 43). All the above with English and German on facing
pages. Also includes: "Theme and
Variation" (42-42), "To a General" (43-44), "Message"
(45), "The Bridges" (45-46), and "Psalm" (46-47), with
English text only. Translations by
Kramer and Siegfried Mandel. The
biographical sketch of Mandel incorrectly identifies him as co-translator of Visions
of Christ; Kramer is the sole translator.
With this, Kramer terminated his creative relationship with Mandel,
though some additional Bachmann translations appeared in 1985.
E424
[Translation] "Recollections of Childhood," by
Joseph Bovshover. Bitterroot
15.56/57 (Summer/ Fall 1976): 46.
From the Yiddish. Translation
done c.1952.
E425
[Poems] "And You Depart" and "Bay
Parkway." Carleton Miscellany 16.4 (Fall/Winter 1976): 42-44. "Bay Parkway" in CP as part 3 of
Section Two of "Carousel Parkway" and in BB as part 7 of Section Two
of the expanded version of "Carousel Parkway."
E426
[Translation] "The First Immigrants (The Trip to
America)," by Avrom Reisen. Midstream 22.10 (December 1976): 5. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E427
[Short story] "A Moment at the Mirror." Jewish Dialog (Chanukah 1976):
26-29. Written c.1960.
E428
[Poem] "Crickets." Waves 4.2 (Winter 1976): 47. In CP.
E429
[Poem] "En Route." Icarus 4.3 (Winter 1976): 6. In
BB.
E430
[Poems] "Five Poems." Modern Poetry Studies 7.33 (Winter 1976): 226-28. Includes "The Last Supper" (in
CP), "Tree" (in IND and IS), "Sunset" (in CP and BB),
"Next," and "Pastoral" in IND.
E431
[Poem] "Moving." St. Andrews Review 6.1 (Fall 1976/ Winter 1977): 118. In BB.
1977
E432
[Poem] "New Ghosts." Modern Poetry Studies 8.3 (Winter 1977): 254-55.
E433
[Poem] "For Sylvia." The Lyric 57.2 (Spring 1977): 37.
In BB, as "Love Song" p. 167.
E434
[Essay] "Creative Potential in
Schizophrenia." Psychiatry 40.2 (May 1977): 146-62. Co-author is Dr. Lucien A. Buck of Dowling
College, Oakdale, New York.
E435
[Poems] "Special Section featuring 3 poems by
Aaron Kramer." Xanadu 2.4 (Summer 1977): 25-34. Includes: "Thessaloniki: Three
Sleeps" (26-7), "Nafplion: Snapshot" (28-9), "Athens:
Through Wide Open Shutters" (32-3), and an untitled explanation of the
evolution of Kramer's travel poems and his recent shift in expression from
first person plural to first person singular (34). Poems in CP.
E436
[Poems] "Bluejays" and "The Florida
Succulents." Icarus 5.2 (Autumn 1977): 2-3.
E437
[Poem] "The Well." riverrun 4.1 (Fall 1977): 2-4.
Initially written in early October 1977 for a faculty strike at Dowling
College, read at the victory meeting, and included in mimeographed form as an
addendum to the minutes of that meeting for campus-wide distribution.
E438
[Translation] "By Its Barrenness," by Moishe
Leib Halpern. Midstream 23.8 (October 1977): 59. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
1978
E439
[Poems] "At Four Minutes to One" and
"Dogs of San Miguel." Xanadu
5 (1978): 50-55. In CP.
E440
[Memoir] "Remembering Bodenheim." Street 2.4 (1978): 118-23. A
personal reminiscence. In BB as
"Bodenheim: A Personal Note."
E441
[Translation] "Up From Earth There Grows," by
Moishe Leib Halpern. Midstream 24.3 (March 1978): 12. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E442
[Poem] "Tour." Conference of Secular Jewish Organizations Newsletter March/April 1978: [2]. In
G, WP, and BB.
E443
[Poem] "Nocturne." English Journal 67.5 (May 1978): 54. In CP and BB.
E444
[Poems] "Visiting Hours,"
"Grandparents in London," and "Thanksgiving Day." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 18.2 (Spring 1978): 57-60. In CP.
E445
[Translation] "Hunger," by I. E. Ronch. Journal of Humanistic Psychology 18.2 (Spring 1978): 61. From the Yiddish.
E446
[Poem] "Build High, Build Wide Your Prison
Walls...." Canadian Jewish Outlook September 1978: 16.
These stanzas were presented on the tenth anniversary of the death of
Mark Weinberg, a prominent South African anti-apartheid leader. The memorial tribute, reprinted from a South
African publication and signed "Sechaba", credits Weinberg with
having written this "remarkable and beautiful poem" in 1960, at
eighteen, "when his parents, along with hundreds of other South
Africans...were detained during the State of Emergency." The stanzas are part four of Kramer's
"October in Freedom Land." In
DV. Set to music by Betty Sanders as
"In Contempt" and widely popular throughout the McCarthy era. In a subsequent issue of Outlook,
Kramer's letter deploring the misrepresentation by Sechaba, appeared along with
the full musical setting as it had been published by Sing Out! in 1950.
E447
[Poem] "Barcelona." The Source 2.1 (October 1978): 2-3. In IWT.
E448
[Poems] "Three Poems." Modern Poetry Studies 9.2 (Fall 1978): 122-26. Includes: "Visiting Hour,"
"Kennedy Airport," and "Two Visits." In CP.
E449
[Poems] "A New Year" and
"Bluejays." South &
West Fall 1978/Winter 1979: 33.
"A New Year" in IND.
1979
E450
[Translation] "Shmulik," by Dora
Teitelboim. Polish Review 24.1 (March 1979): 62-63. From the Yiddish. Translated c.1950. In M, AMY and LL.
E451
[Poem] "A Rose For Granada," a cycle including
"Madrid: Coming Home,"
"Sevilla: July 18th," and "Granada: The Rose." riverrun Spring 1979: 9-11. In CP.
E452
[Poems] "Gilbert and Sullivan Night at the
Proms" and "Sunday in the Square: San Miguel de Allende." riverrun Spring 1979: 35. In CP.
E453
[Poems] "Seven Minutes to Traintime" and
"Matilda." riverrun
Spring 1979: 37. "Matilda" written at the death of Kramer's
longtime Dowling collegue, Matilda Salamone is in CP.
E454
[Poem] "A Song For Singers." Jewish People's Chorus: Fifty-Fifth
Jubilee 20 May 1979. Commemorative program for a performance at
the Wilshire Ebell Theater, Los Angeles, CA.
Also includes in the synopsis of "Moses (Moishe der Bafrayer)"
several lines of Chaim Schwartz's translation and of the English original. "A Song For Singers" in RFD. See I135.
E455
[Poem] "Coming Home." A Collection from the C.W. Post Community
Contest Summer 1979: 8-9. In CP as "Madrid: Coming Home."
E456
[Poems] "Coney Island" and "Kennedy
Airport." Midstream
August/September 1979: 30. In CP.
E457
[Essay] "A Mighty Charm." West
Hills Review 1.1 (Fall 1979):
9-11. Kramer served as poetry editor
for the premiere issue of this publication of the Walt Whitman Birthplace
Association, Huntington Station, NY 11746, and as co-editor through 1985. In NAP as section two of “Whitman: Five Approaches.”
E458
[Poem] "Passengers." riverrun 6.1 (Fall 1979): 48. In
IND.
E459
[Poems] "Pasts" and
"Back." St. Andrews Review Fall/Winter 1979: 94-97. "Back" in IWT.
E460
[Poem] "Now, Before
Shaving." Carleton Miscellany 18.1 (Winter 1979/80): 163-64. In CP and BB.
1980
E461
[Letter] "An Open Letter to the CBS Network
television program Sixty Minutes."
The Source April 1980:
[1]. Contains the complete text of
Kramer's letter in response to an expose of repression on the Boston University
campus. The first segment of the letter
was telecast on Sixty Minutes 6
January 1980.
E462
[Poems] "Meeting Muriel Rukeyser's Train"
and "Parking Lot." Poet
Lore Spring 1980: 6-7. "Meeting..." in BB as Part 1 of
"Elegy for Murial Rukeyser" and "Parking Lot" in IND.
E463
[Poems] [Three Poems]. riverrun 6.2
(Spring 1980): 37,65. Includes:
"Melville Cane: 1879-1980," "Elegy," "The Ides of
March (for Allard Lowenstein)".
"Elegy" in BB as Part 2 of "Elegy for Muriel
Rukeyser."
E464
[Poems] "Down Escalator" and
"Breakfast." The
Antigonish Review #42 Summer 1980:
73-4. In CP.
E465
[Poem] "Gilbert and Sullivan Night at the
Proms" Whetstone #7 Summer
1980: 43. In CP.
E466
[Poems] "Learning By Stages" and "On
the Terrace of the Marazul." San
Fernando Poetry Journal 1.3 (Summer
1980): 14-5. In "Learning By
Stages" line thirty, exclamation mark for question mark. "Learning By
Stages", revised, in IND. In "On the Terrace of the Marazul"
line nine "My" for "By" and in line fifteen
"flast" for "flash."
E467
[Poem] "A Life." Earthwise 2.5 (Summer 1980): 13.
Line eight: "wings furrowed" for "wings rowed,/ prows furrowed,"
E468
[Short story] "Primary Process." American Man 1.3 (Summer 1980): 30-2. The editors submitted this story for the
1980 Pushcart Prize.
E469
[Poems] "The Voice of San Miguel" and
"Primal Street." Visions
#3 Summer 1980: [35-36] "The Voice of San Miguel" in IND
and IWT, and "Primal Street" in BB as section two, Part II of
"Carousel Parkway."
E470
[Poems] "Westminster Synagogue" and
"Hattie." New England
Review 2.4 (Summer 1980):
584-5. "Westminster
Synagogue" in CP as "At Westminster Synagogue."
"Hattie" in BB as "Graduation March."
E471
[Poem] "Words." Tempest 2.1
(Summer 1980): 42. In IND and IS.
E472
[Poem] "By the Lake at Night." Blueline Summer/Fall 1980: 30. In
M.
E473
[Poem] "Called In." Visions #4 Fall 1980: [23] With
illustration on left page. In IWT.
E474
[Poem] "Reunion." San Fernando Poetry Journal 1.4 (Fall 1980): 66-7. Refrain beginning "I don't know what it
meant..." mistakenly placed between fourth and fifth stanzas.
E475
[Essay] "Whitmanesque Neruda." West
Hills Review 2 (Fall 1980): 39-45. Includes, on p.114, a photograph by Victor
Behrend of Kramer, along with poets Vince Clemente, William Heyen, and Norbert
Krapf, taken at the Walt Whitman Birthplace after a reading by Heyen, described
in Kramer's essay "The Smile on Whitman's Face." See G496.
In NAP as section three of “Whitman: Five Approaches.”
E476
[Poems] "Words" and "Short
Story." American Man 1.4 (Fall 1980): 34-7. "Words" in IND and IS.
E477
[Poem] "The Dance." riverrun 7.1 (Fall 1980): 70-72.
In D and BB.
1981
E478
[Poem] "Guitar and Dry Leaves." The Electric Chelys 1980/81: [52-3] Includes illustration by Dali Spalding. In TC.
E479
[Translation] "In the Shop," by Louis
Miller. Visions #5 1981:
[18] From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E480
[Poem] "Olympia: Dusk and Dawn." St. Andrews Review 22 (1981): 11.
E481
[Poem] "At Night." Bitterroot 19.74-5 (Winter 1980/Spring 1981): 7. In IND.
E482
[Poem] "One Year the Leaves Were
Late." Sun Dog 3 (Spring 1981): 29. In IWT and IND.
E483
[Translation] "Babi-Yar," by Shike Driz. Midstream 27.2 (February 1981):
54. From the Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E484
[Poem] "Cordoba Nocturne." Midstream 27.2 (February 1981): 25.
In CP and BB.
E485
[Translation] "Ghetto Song," by Jacob
Glatstein. Midstream 27.2 (February 1981): 64. From the Yiddish. In LL.
E486
[Essay] "Albrecht Freudenberg (1913-1981)
Dowling Faculty 1961-1978." Clipboard
(Dowling College, Oakdale, NY) March
1981: 5.
E487
[Essay] "`A Short Memoir'-- About the Observer
Mostly." The Brooklyn College
Alumni Literary Review 1.1&2
(Spring/Summer 1981): 49-56.
E488
[Poems] [Eleven poems] The Brooklyn College Alumni Literary Magazine 1.1&2 (Spring/Summer 1981): 57-68. Includes: "Primal Street,"
"At Four," "The Death of a Grandmother," "Sylvia,"
"Driving Past," "Bensonhurst Intersection,"
"Nick," "Along Kings Highway," "The Visits of
Cousins," (in BB) "Moving," (in BB) and "For Three Students." "Primal Street" in BB as part 2 of section II of
"Carousel Parkway". "The
Death of a Grandmother" in BB as section 2 of "For My
Grandmother". "Along Kings
Highway" in BB (as the final poem) titled "Iz Geven Amol". ""Nick" in IWT and IND.
E489
[Poem] "Elegy for Muriel Rukeyser." San Fernando Poetry Journal 2.3 (1981): 5-8. In BB as parts two and three of the complete elegy.
E490
[Poems] [Four poems] New England Review
3.4 (Summer 1981): 541-42.
Includes: "Feeding," "The Visit," in BB; and
"Local," and "Old Tunes" in IND.
E491
[Poem] "A Sort of Hero." Bitterroot 19.76 (Summer 1981): 20. Revised in IND, as "Hero".
E492
[Memoir] "The Manifestation: Fragment of a Greek
Tour." riverrun Fall 1981: 67-72.
E493
[Translation] "Moses' Kiss," by Isaac E.
Ronch. Jewish Currents 35.11 (December 1981): 16-17. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E494
[Poems] [Three poems] San Fernando Poetry Journal 3.1 (1981): 10-11.
Includes three linked poems: "I. Entering My Home With the New York
Times," "II. The Ventriloquist," and "III. Fourteen
Children." Portions of a work
titled "To Alexander Haig". Number I in IND as Part III of "In
the Fortieth Presidency."
E495
[Poem] "Two Visits." Confrontation 23 (Winter 1981): 117. Written at the birth
of Kramer's first grandchild in 1973.
In CP and BB.
E496
[Essay] "A Foreword." West Hills Review 3 (1981/82): 1-4.
E497
[Essay] "The Smile on Whitman's
Face." West Hills Review 3 (1981/82): 110. See G474 for source.
E498
[Essay] "On Turner's Polemic." Missouri Review 5.2 (Winter 1981/82): 173-175. Kramer's invited response to the provocative
essay by Frederick Turner, in the Fall 1980 issue of Missouri Review, on
the state of contemporary American poetry.
Other respondents were Donald Hall, Louis Simpson, Diane Wakowski, and
Theodore Weiss. Turner's rebuttal is
particularly positive to Kramer.
1982
E499
[Poems] "Booom!," "At the
Wheel," and "All-Star Neutron Day: Aug. 9, 1981." Visions #8 1982: [np]
"Booom!" in BB and "All-Star Neutron Day" so titled
in IND and IWT.
E500
[Poem] "Had I Not." Visions #9 1982: [np] In IND and
IWT.
E501
[Poems] "A Neighbor Dies" and
"Suite." Wind/ Literary
Journal 12.44 (1982): 20-23.
"A Neighbor Dies" includes "Nightwind," "The
Storm Windows," and "Breakfast"; "Suite" includes "Falling Asleep,"
"Now," "Composition," and "After" untitled in IND
as part five of "Episode."
"Falling Asleep" untitled in IND as part two of
"Episode" and in IWT.
E502
[Poems] "The Visits of Cousins" and
"Fable." Writers Forum 8 (1982): 233-234. The first poem is in BB.
E503
[Poem] “Street Names.” Street Magazine 3.2 (1982): 6.
E504
[Poem] “The New Slippers.” Street
Magazine 3.2 (1982): 8-9.
E505
[Poem] "Phone Call." The Antigonish Review 49 (Spring 1982): 94.
E506
[Memoir] "Ghosts: Fragments of a Greek
Tour." Midstream 28.5 (May 1982): 34-38. In BB.
E507
[Poem] "Dental Appointment." Confrontation 24 (Summer 1982): 54-55. Three sections titled: "To the
City," "In the Chair," and "Penn Station." All in IND untitled as parts one, four, and
five of "Dental Appointment."
E508
[Poems] "Three Poems." New England Review 4.4 (Summer 1982): 554-55. Includes "Nocturne" (554);
"The News" (555), in IWT; and "In the Cage" (555), in IS. In IND untitled as parts one, three, and
four of "Episode."
E509
[Translation] "The Bridge Reverberates Each Step We
Take," by Jack Gordon (c.1916-c.1943).
New England Review 4.4
(Summer 1982): 557. From the
Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E510
[Translation] "Who Brings the Songs," by Jacob
Friedman (1910-1973). New England
Review 4.4 (Summer 1982): 558. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E511
[Poem] "Snapshot." Bitterroot Summer 1982: 14. Written
c.1972.
E512
[Translation] "The Spiderwebs," by Abraham
Liessin (1872-1938). Bitterroot
Summer 1982: 12. From the
Yiddish. In CYP.
E513
[Translation] "On an Immigrant Ship," by Yehoash
(1870-1927). Bitterroot Summer
1982: 28. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E514
[Poems] "Line of Vision" and
"Friends." The Antigonish Review 50 (Summer 1982): 80.
"Line of Vision" written c.1970.
E515
[Translation] "What Has Become Of," by Rajzel
Zychlinsky (1910- ). Home Planet News 3.3 (Summer/Fall 1982): 15. From the Yiddish. In CYP and GHF.
E516
[Poem] "American Street Names." San Fernando Poetry Journal 4.1 (Fall 1982): 24.
E517
[Poem] "A Political Ballad." San Fernando Poetry Journal 4.1 (Fall
1982): 33. In IND as Number I of
"In the Fortieth Presidency", and IWT as the title poem "In
Wicked Times."
E518
[Poem] "All-Star Neutron Day." San Fernando Poetry Journal 4.1 (Fall
1982): 60. In IND as Number III of
"In the Fortieth Presidency", and IWT as "All-Star Neutron Day:
Aug. 9, 1981."
E519
[Poem] "Anniversary Waltz." Eleven Fall 1982: [4]. In IND.
E520
[Translation] "In the Dungeon," by Avrom
Sutzkever (1913- ). Midstream 28.9 (November 1982): 9. From the Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E521
[Poem] "Along Downtown Broadway." Midstream 28.9 (November 1982): 44.
Error: lines 17-18 are split, should be one line. In BB as the final poem, titled "Iz
Geven Amol".
1983
E522
[Translation] "Die, Die My Outcry," by Aaron
Kushnirov. Visions #11 Winter 1983: [1]. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E523
[Poems] [Six Poems]. Brooklyn College Alumni Literary Review 4 (Spring 1983): 13-22. Includes: "AT Trudie's Trivia
Door" (13-14); "Elegy for Muriel Rukeyser" (15-20) sections 1-3
in BB and section 4 titled "Notes Perhaps for a Poem To be Titled `The
Chair'" in IWT as "The Chair"; "Up Third" (20);
"Interview" (21); "Victory" (21-22); and "Melville
Cane: 1879-1980" (22). "At Trudie's Trivia Door" and
"Interview" in IND.
E524
[Poem] "After the Call." Visions #12 Spring 1983: [26] In IS
as part one of "The Death of a Friend."
E525
[Letter] "Candid Response." Home Planet News 4.11 (Spring 1983): 2. A discussion about the nature of Yiddish
poetry and the problems of translation.
E526
[Poem] "Seven Minutes to Traintime." Pikestaff Forum #5 Spring 1983: 7.
E527
[Poem] "Madrid: The Ghosts of its
Defenders" and "Granada: First Sleep." Pikestaff Forum #5
Spring 1983: 23. “Madrid” in RE.
"Granada" in IWT.
E528
[Poem] "Street Scene." Long Pond Review 8 (Spring 1983): 18. In IND and IWT.
E529
[Poem] "The Tour
(Thanksgiving 1982)." San
Fernando Poetry Journal 4.3 (Spring
1983): 13.
E530
[Poem] "...And On And On...." San Fernando Poetry Journal 4.3 (Spring 1983): 65. A poem in two parts: "1. To the
Masterfingers of Dsseldorf" and "2. The Masterfingers Among
Themselves." Part two in IND as "The Masters of Dsseldorf."
E531
[Poem] "To Ralph Waldo Emerson." San Fernando Poetry Journal 4.3 (Spring 1983): 67.
E532
[Translations] "Our Alef-Beis" and "Not
Without a Trace," by Ber Green. Jewish
Currents 37.3 (March 1983):
30-31. From the Yiddish. "Not Without a Trace" in CYP as
"I Shall Not Disappear Without a Trace."
E533
[Translations] "Seven Yiddish Lullabies." Midstream 24.4 (April 1983): 55-56.
Includes: "Sleep, My Babe" (55) by Michel Gordon, "Cradle
Song" (55) by Mendele Moicher Sforim, "Jochebed" (55) by Isaac
Peretz, "Sleep, My Child" (56) by Sholem Aleichem,
"Lullaby" (56) by Simeon Frug, "At the Cradle" (56) by
Abrbham Liessin, and "A Cradle-Song" (56) by Hersh-David
Nomberg. From the Yiddish. Kramer provides an introductory sketch (55).
E534
[Essay and Translations] "Isaac Reingold, the Fifth Sweatshop
Poet." Jewish Currents 37.5 (May 1983): 12-19. Includes "My
Portraits" and "My Friends" (14), "The Worker-Poet (in the
style of Morris Rosenfeld)" and "From Belief to Battle" (15),
"Life" and "The Battle (Excerpt)" (16-17), "I Am a Jew
(Excerpt)" and "The Immigrant" (17-18), and "The Poet's
Will" (19). "The
Battle," "I Am a Jew," and "The Poet's Will" in CYP.
From the Yiddish.
E535
[Poem] "Bensonhurst Intersection." Visions #13 Summer 1983: [19]. Second version of the poem.
E536
[Poem] "Scarf." Poet Lore 78.2
(Summer 1983): 83. Second half of this
poem as "Depot Scene" in G617.
In IND.
E537
[Poem] "Swan Song." NER/BLQ: New England Quarterly and Bread
Loaf Review 5.4 (Summer 1983): 533-534.
E538
[Essay] "Hiroshima: a 37-Year Failure to
Respond." NER/BLQ: New England
Quarterly and Bread Loaf Review 5.4
(Summer 1983): 534-548. Contribution to
the special anthology issue, titled "Writers in the Nuclear
Age." Kramer ends his essay with a
poem not listed separately in the table of contents, titled "New York
Skyline in Cloud." "New
York...", revised in IND.
E539
[Poem] "North of Wilmington." Bitterroot 22.82/83 (Summer/Winter 1983): 16. Revised, in IND as "Blizzard."
E540
[Translation] "Brother!" by Ber Lapin. Bitterroot 22.82/83 (Summer/Winter
1983): 27. From the Yiddish. Line 6: "race" for "face." Lapin listed as "Bea Lapin" in the
table of contents. In CYP.
E541
[Translation] "Hungry," by Ber Green. Bitterroot 22.82/83 (Summer/Winter
1983): 65. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E542
[Poem] "Port Jefferson: A November
Day." Visions #14 Fall 1983: [22]. Revised, in IND.
E543
[Poems] "In the Suburbs" and "After
the Hospital." NER/BLQ: New
England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly
6.2 (Winter 1983): 305-307. In
IND (revised), and in IS.
E544
[Essay] "Remembering Owen Dodson." Freedomways 23.4 (Winter 1983): 258-269. Contains several editorial errors corrected
in the manuscript copy in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA. In NAP.
E545
[Essay] "Time's Revenges." West
Hills Review 4 (1983/84): 1-3. In NAP as section five of “Whitman: Five
Approaches.”
1984
E546
[Poem] "Cheerleader Killed; 'Best Student'
Seized." Lodestar 2.1 (1984): 4. Revised, in IND.
E547
[Poem] "Eva!" Spectrum
26.1&2 (1984): 16. Revised,
in IND.
E548
[Poem] "Nocturne: `For once let it be...'
" Visions #16 (1984):
[21]. Titled "Dark and Still"
in Broadside, see G555.
E549
[Poems] "Poems." Wind/ Literary Journal
14.50 (1984): 36-38. Includes
"Passing Lynbrook" (36), "Southshore Line" (37) in IND, and
"The Clich: a Ballad" (37-8) in IND.
E550
[Poem] "Savona: Name On a Railroad
Chart." Zephyr 2.2 (1984): 50-51. Written c.1970.
E551
[Poems] "At Night: Two Poems." Kenyon Review 6.1 (Winter 1984): 67-70. Includes "Homecoming" in IND and
IS, and "Nocturne: Hour by Crawling Hour".
E552
[Poem] "In Wicked Times." Peace Times 2 (February 1984): 2. In
IND and IWT.
E553
[Translation] "Beauty," by Mani Leib
(1883-1953). Bitterroot 23.84
(Spring 1984): 20. From the
Yiddish. In CYP.
E554
[Translation] "The Gangster," by Anna Margolin
(1887-1952). Bitterroot 23.84
(Spring 1984): 50. From the
Yiddish. In CYP.
E555
[Poem] "Dress Department." American Man 2.3 (Spring 1984): 27. In BB.
E556
[Poems] "Raking" and
"Birthday." The Antigonish
Review 57 (Spring 1984):
74-75. "Raking" in IS, both
in IND.
E557
[Poem] "Morning." Jewish Chronicle (London) 2 March 1984: 15. Error in line 4: "shopper" for "chopper." In
BB and WP.
E558
[Poem] "Dark and Still." Broadside 153 (July 1984): 19.
Titled "Nocturne"
in Visions #16, see G545.
E559
[Poem] "Toward the End." Transitions July/August 1984: 3.
Includes parts one and three.
Part two published as "Thunder" in riverrun. See G570.
In IND.
E560
[Poem] "Grenada Symphony: First
Movement." Broadside 154 (August 1984): [np]
E561
[Poems] "Grins" and "Yawn in Empty
House." Cumberland Poetry
Review 4.1 (Fall 1984): 98-99. Revised, in IND.
E562
[Poem] "The Slippers." American Man 2.4 (Fall 1984): 50. In IND and IS.
E563
[Poem] "Job Interview." American Man 2.4 (Fall 1984): 52. In IND.
E564
[Poem] "Mother's Day 1984." Canadian Jewish Outlook 22.11 (November 1984): 8. Includes explanatory note on place of
writing "in a hospital emergency room."
E565
[Essay] "Ber Green in Canada." Canadian Jewish Outlook 22.12 (December 1984): 7-8. Transcribed segment of a three part
interview, about six hours, recorded at Green's bedside at Home of the Sages, a
New York City nursing home, during June 1982.
E566
[Poems] "Lunch" and
"Rhodos." Lodestar 2.2 (Winter 1984/85):
"Rhodos" in IND.
1985
E567
[Poems] "Amherst" and "At Three in
the Morning." Spectrum 28 (1985): 20-21. "At Three in the Morning" in IND revised and untitled
as part two of "Nightsong."
E568
[Translation] "Invocation To The Great Bear," by
Ingeborg Bachmann. Rolling Stock 9 (1985): 26. From the German, with Siegfried Mandel.
E569
[Essay] "To Soar in Freedom: a
Foreword." West Hills Review
5 (1985): 9. Kramer's farewell to the
readers of the Review, written on behalf of his co-editors as well as
himself.
E570
[Essay] "The Learn'd Astronomer." West
Hills Review 5 (1985): 62-67. In NAP as section four of “Whitman: Five
Approaches.”
E571
[Poem] "Indigo." New England Review and Bread Loaf
Quarterly 8.2 (Winter 1985):
178-179. Title poem of IND.
E572
[Poem] "Metropolitan Forecast." Visions #17 February 1985: [22]
E573
[Poems] "Nocturnes." riverrun Spring 1985: 26-30.
Includes "Two Cats" (26), "Wake" (26-7) in IND,
"Aunt Rose is Removed" (27), "Thunder" (28), "Lip on
Lip" (28) in IND, "Windchimes" (28-9) in IND, "Storm"
(29-30) in IND, and "Nightsong" (30).
E574
[Poem] "The Door." riverrun Spring 1985: 30.
E575
[Poems] "April" and "Texaco
Matinee." The Lyric 65.2 (Spring 1985): 35. "Texaco Matinee" received the
Leitch Memorial Prize for 1985.
"April" in IND.
E576
[Translation] "Don't Sing the Sorrowful," by
Abraham Sutzkever. Midstream
31.5 (May 1985): 20. From the
Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E577
[Poem] "Incident." The Lyric 65.3 (Summer 1985): 62.
In IND.
E578
[Poem] "Flood." Cumberland Poetry Review
5.1 (Fall 1985): 26-27. The
first half of a poem about Cornwall, written in 1977. In IND.
E579
[Translation] "Stars in March," by Ingeborg
Bachmann. Cumberland Poetry Review 5.1 (Fall 1985): 29. From the German, with Siegfried Mandel. Includes the German text.
E580
[Translation] "Nightflight," by Ingeborg
Bachmann. Cumberland Poetry Review 5.1 (Fall 1985): 32-33. From the German, with Siegfried Mandel. Includes the German text.
E581
[Poem] "If Only." The Lyric 65.4 (Fall 1985): 91.
Untitled as Number I of "Nightsongs" in IND.
E582
[Translations] "Salt and Bread" and "In the
Storm of the Roses," by Ingeborg Bachman.
Writers' Forum 11 (Fall
1985):17-18. From the German, with
Siegfried Mandel. Includes the German
text.
E583
[Poems] "The Son" and "The Laughter
of Madeline Mason." Writers'
Forum 11 (Fall 1985): 73-74.
"The Son" in IND.
E584
[Translation] "Till the Last Hour: Dedicated to Abe
Weiselman," by Isaac E. Ronch. Canadian Jewish Outlook 23.9 (Sep. 1985): 12. From the Yiddish. Published at Ronch's death.
E585
[Translation] "Song of a Jewish Poet in 1943,"
by Abraham Sutzkever. Midstream 31.8 (October 1985): 18. From the Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E586
[Poems] "Southshore Line" and "At
Three in the Morning." Confrontation 30-31 (November 1985): 109-110.
A special anthology issue devoted to Long Island writers. Both in IND. "At Three in the Morning" untitled as part two of "Nightsongs."
1986
E587
[Poems] "Homecoming" and "Object Seen
From Moving Window." Brooklyn College Review 6 (1986): 45-46. Both in IND. "Homecoming" untitled as last section of
"Dental Appointment."
E588
[Translation] "My Mother," by Mani Leib. Bitterroot 25.87 (Winter 1986): 14.
From the Yiddish. Includes
significant errors. In CYP.
E589
[Essay and translations] "The Crest of a Great Wave: Seven More
Yiddish Proletarian Poets." Jewish
Currents 40.1 (January 1986):
26-32. Kramer traces the careers of the
seven poets. Translations from the
Yiddish include: "Lullaby of a Worker's Wife" by Leon Zolotkoff (29),
"Hunger" by David Goldstein (29), "Resurrection (Written in
1905)" by Anna Rapport (29-30), "At the Cemetery" by Benjamin
Rosenblum (30), "To the Poet" by Nahum Babad (30-1), "The
Machine Worker" by Jacob Adler (31), and "The Seamstress (1905)"
by Joel Slonim. In CYP.
E590
[Essay] "Son of Jeremiah: Sol
Funaroff." Canadian Jewish Outlook
24.1 (Jan./Feb. 1986): 13-14.
Includes significant errors and omissions. Expanded version reprinted as “Sons of Jeremiah” in NAP.
E591
[Poem] "Matones." Yiddishe Kultur 48 (February 1986): 23. Written in Yiddish by Kramer. Title translates as "Gifts."
E592
[Poem] "Progress." Visions #20 February 1986: 24.
E593
[Translation] "Autumn," by B.J.
Bialostotsky. Visions #21 Spring
1986: [24]. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E594
[Translation] "What Has Become Of," by Rajzel
Zychlinska. Visions #21 Spring 1986: [24]. From the Yiddish. In CYP
and GHF.
E595
[Poem] "Morning Stroll After
Hurricane." riverrun Spring 1986: 20. In IND.
E596
[Poem] "On the Death of Someone Else's
Grandchild." Lyric 66.2 (Spring 1986): 33. In IND.
E597
[Essay] "Son of Jeremiah: Alex
Frankel." Canadian Jewish Outlook
24.3 (March 1986): 19-20.
Frankel's pseudonym is Alexander F. Bergman. Several of his poems are included in Kramer's 1957 Folkways
recording. See I07.
Reprinted in an expanded version as “Sons of Jeremiah” in NAP.
E598
[Translations] "The Grief-Stricken Heart," by S.
Shenker and "While Carrying Loads of Timber," by Jack Gordon. Midstream 32.4 (April 1986): 58.
From the Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E599
[Translation] "The Teacher Mira (Vilna Ghetto, May
10, 1943)", by Abraham Sutzkever. Jewish
Currents 40.4 (April 1986):
24-26. From the Yiddish. Includes an introduction by Kramer. In CYP and LL.
E600
[Translation] "We Go On Living," by Rajzel
Zychlinska. Canadian Jewish Outlook 24.4 (April 1986): 6. From the Yiddish. In CYP, GHF, and LL.
E601
[Translation] "Two Stones," by Rajzel
Zychlinska. Canadian Jewish Outlook 24.4 (April 1986): 14. From the Yiddish. In GHF and LL.
E602
[Translation] "The Haymarket Tragedy" by David
Opalov. Canadian Jewish Outlook 24.5 (May 1986): 10. From the Yiddish. This publication marked the centenary of organized labor's first
May Day parade. In CYP.
E603
[Translation] "I'd Like To Stop," by Rochl
Korn. Canadian Jewish Outlook 24.6 (June 1986): 8. From the Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E604
[Translation] "This is Not the Road," by Rajzel
Zychlinska. Canadian Jewish Outlook
24.6 (June 1986): 11. From the
Yiddish. In CYP, GHF, and LL.
E605
[Poem] "May 4, 1986: Austria Acquits Herself
(With Waldheim)." The Forward
90.30,563 (13 June 1986): 1.
Actual title: "Austria Acquits Herself (May 4, 1986)."
E606
[Poem] "On My Sixtieth Birthday." Bitterroot 26.88 (Summer 1986): 7.
In RE.
E607
[Translation] "Some Words Are There," by Zische
Landau. Bitterroot 26.88 (Summer 1986): 8. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E608
[Poem] "In-Laws." Cumberland Poetry Review 6.1 (Fall 1986): 60. IN RE.
E609
[Poem] "Legacy." The Mickle Street Review 8 (Autumn 1986): 72. Written c.1980 for his granddaughter Nora,
connecting her to Lafayette through Whitman and Ella Reeve Bloor (a famed labor
leader who had befriended Kramer as a child poet). Revised, in IND.
E610
[Translation] "Before Night," by Avrom
Sutzkever. Canadian Jewish Outlook 24.9 (September 1986): 21. From the Yiddish.
E611
[Poem] "Divorce." Transitions 6.5 (September/October 1986): 13.
E612
[Poem] "For My Mother, On Her Seventieth
Birthday." Outlook 24.12
(December 1986): 21. Written in 1966.
E613
[Poems] "Three Poems." Wind
16.58 (1986): 22-23. Includes
"Blue Square," (22) in IND; "Biography," (22); and
"News Item," (22-23) in IND.
1987
E614
[Poem] "Nightsong." The Lyric 67.1 (Winter 1987): 13.
E615
[Translations] "The Trees Lead," by Reuben
Eisland and "Till Now," by A.M. Dillon. Bitterroot 26.89
(Winter 1987): 31. From the
Yiddish. In CYP.
E616
[Letter] [Untitled greeting] Bitterroot 26.89 (Winter 1987): 80.
A greeting from Kramer to editor Menke Katz on the occasion of Bitterroot's
25th anniversary.
E617
[Translations] "Yuri Suhl: In Memoriam July 30, 1908
-- Nov. 8, 1986." Jewish
Currents 41.1 (January 1987):
24-27. Includes: "The Black
Soldier," (24-25) translated
c.1951; "The Ship `Exodus,'" (25-27) translated c.1949. Also includes a statement about the poet,
the poems, and the translator. Kramer
is identified as Suhl's Yiddish student in 1932. From the Yiddish. “The
Ship’Exodus’” in LL as “The Ship.”
E618
[Translation] "Cain," by Itzik Manger. Midstream 33.1 (January 1987): 18.
From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E619
[Translation] "Queen Jezebel," by Itzik
Manger. Midstream 33.1 (January 1987): 25. In CYP.
E620
[Poem] "Report to my Father (on the 33rd
anniversary of his death)." Outlook 25.1-2 (January/February 1987): 6. Written 1980.
E621
[Poem] "Kaddish." Jewish Currents 41.2 (February 1987): 22. Two sonnets titled: "The Next Wave" and "What
Comes Home." Written on the 40th
anniversary of his father's death. In
IND without the title "Kaddish."
E622
[Poem] "Depot Scene." Piedmont Literary Review 11.3 (Spring 1987): [1] Second half of "Scarf," see G531.
E623
[Translation] "1928," by Moishe Nadir. Visions #23 Spring 1987: [36] From
the Yiddish. In CYP.
E624
[Poem] "What Comes Home." Cumberland Poetry Review 6.2 (Spring 1987): 27. Appears as part of
"Kaddish" in G618. In IND.
E625
[Translation] "It Happens," by Martin Birnbaum (1904-1986).
Outlook 25.3 (March 1987):
11. From the Yiddish. Kramer provides a biographical sketch.
E626
[Translation] "My Song Will Be That Fists Fling
High," by Yuri Suhl (1908-1986). Outlook 25.3 (March 1987): 11. From the Yiddish. Kramer provides a biographical sketch. In CYP.
E627
[Translations] "Three Translations." Midstream 33.4 (April 1987):49.
Includes "Girls in Crotona Park," by Anna Margolin; "An
Alarm Clock Rings," by Rajzel Zychlinska; and "A Language," by
Rochel Boimvol. From the Yiddish. The Margolin and Boimvol translations in
CYP.
E628
[Translation] "If No Trace of My People Shall be
Found," by Avrom Sutzkever. Outlook 25.4 (April 1987): 18. From the Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E629
[Translation] "Jewish Partisan Song: `Zog Nit
Keynmol'," by Hirsh Glick. Morning
Freiheit (English section) 19 April 1987: 1. From the Yiddish. Second
stanza, lines 6 and 7 are misprinted.
This is a special Holocaust issue of the Freiheit. In M , CYP, and LL.
E6230
[Poems] "'The Rising in the Warsaw Ghetto' and
Other Poems of the Hitler Era." Morning
Freiheit (English section) 19 April 1987: 3. Includes six poems: "The Rising in the Warsaw Ghetto"
(misprint in line 16), from M; "To My People," "Refugees"
(misprint in line 6), from AF; "The Odessa Partisans,"
"Lublin," and "Monument," from TGNS. All in BB.
Biographical sketch of Kramer included.
E631
[Translation] "Our Banner (to the First of
May)," by Moishe Nadir, Outlook, v. 25, No. 5 (May 1987): 3. From the Yiddish.
E632
[Poem] "On the
Highway." Visions #24
Summer 1987: [30]. Written
c.1978.
E633
[Translation] "My Guest (excerpts)," by Celia
Dropkin. Bitterroot 26.90
(Summer 1987): 42. From the
Yiddish. In CYP.
E634
[Poem] "Nocturne: 'No hope of sleep....'"
Bitterroot 26.90 (Summer 1987): 53. A new sonnet form, breaking at lines 9/10,
rhyming ABC, ABC, ABC, DEEDE; hexameters at lines 9 and 14.
E635
[Poem] "Waiting Room." Bitterroot 26.90 (Summer 1987): 66.
Part of larger poem "Dental Appointment." Editorial error in last line,
"sole" should be omitted. In
IND untitled as part three of "Dental Appointment."
E636
[Translation] "Sea Song (from Yehuda Halevi),"
by Nachman Bialik. Bitterroot 26.90 (Summer 1987): 66. From the Yiddish. Bialik had adapted a Hebrew poem by the medieval Spanish poet
Halevi. In CYP.
E637
[Translation] "Don't Sing the Sorrowful," by
Avrom Sutzkever. Bitterroot
26.90 (Summer 1987): 67. From
the Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E638
[Translation] "When I Die," by Meyer Shtiker. Bitterroot 26.90 (Summer 1987): 69.
From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E639
[Translations] "Soviet-Jewish Martyrs: August 12,
1952." Outlook 25.7-8 (July/August 1987): 12-3. Includes "Splinters," by Peretz
Markish (revised in CYP), "My Curse," (revised in CYP and LL), and
"My Vow," (the first eight lines of a longer poem in CYP and LL as
“The Vow”), by Itzik Feffer, and "Cabbage," by Leib Kvitko (in CYP).
E640
[Translations] "Two Poems on the Statue of
Liberty." Jewish Currents 41.7 (July/August 1987): 8-10. Includes
"The Goddess" and "The Spiderwebs" from Abraham
Liesin's "The Statue of Liberty" and "Inside New York's Statue
of Liberty" by Melech Ravitch.
From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E641
[Translation] "I Feel the Whole World's
Hardness," by A. M. Dillon. Bitterroot 26.91 (Fall 1987): 5. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E642
[Translation] "I Am Not Rich," by Joseph
Rolnick. Bitterroot 26.91 (Fall 1987): 29. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E643
[Translation] "Unemployed," by Yuri Suhl. Bitterroot 26.91 (Fall 1987): 32.
From the Yiddish. In CYP as
"Song of the Unemployed Worker."
E644
[Poem] "Leaf Bags." The Lyric 67.4 (Fall 1987): 95.
E645
[Poem] "Reunion." Piedmont Literary Review 12.1 (Fall 1987): [48]. In IND with first line: "She allowed my
invitation..."
E646
[Translation] "Someone Has Covered Up," by
Rajzel Zychlinska. Visions #25
Fall 1987: [24]. From the
Yiddish.
E647
[Translation] "The Murder of My Mother," by
Avrom Sutzkever. Visions #25
Fall 1987: [27]. Kramer's
title. A passage from "My
Mother." From the Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E648
[Poem] "A New Synagogue for Chelm." Outlook 25.9-10 (September/October 1987): 20. The only section of the text not set to music by Eugene Glickman
in his Chelm: A Madrigal Comedy.
See . Page 21 includes a cartoon by Daniel
Jackson titled "A Chelmer Puzzle," inspired by the text.
E649
[Translation] "I Wait For Work," by Yudica. Outlook 25.11 (November 1987): 6.
From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E650
[Translation] "My Mother Looks At Me," by Rajzel
Zychlinska. Midstream 33.10
(December 1987): 9. From the
Yiddish. In CYP, GHF, and LL.
E651
[Translation] "I Told the Sea," by David
Goldstein. Midstream 33.10 (December 1987): 13. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E652
[Translations] "Eight," by Avrom Reisen and
"The Lost Roses," by Avrom Sutzkever. Midstream 33.10
(December 1987): 32. From the Yiddish.
In CYP. “The Lost Roses” also in LL.
E653
[Essay] "Poetry as a Key to the Unlocking of
the Self." Journal of Poetry Therapy 1.2 (Winter 1987): 77-87.
Kramer is a member of the Editorial Board.
E654
[Translation] "The Wind," by Yuri Suhl. Bitterroot 27.92 (Winter 1987/88): 10.
From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E655
[Translation] "Our Word," by A.M. Dillon. Bitterroot 27.92 (Winter 1987/88):
17. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E656
[Translation] "My Speech," by Joseph
Papiernikoff. Bitterroot 27.92 (Winter 1987/88): 42. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E657
[Translations] "Four Paces in Sunlight" and "Heed the Moon," by Joseph
Rolnik. Bitterroot 27.92 (Winter 1987/88): 54-55. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E658
[Translation] "Poor People," by B. I.
Bialostotsky. Bitterroot 27.92 (Winter 1987/88): 66. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
1988
E659
[Poem] "Lines Composed in the Rain Outside a
Ticketron Office." The Lyric
68.1 (Winter 1988): 10. Written
c.1976.
E660
[Translations] "A Snow Falls," "This Is Not
the Road (Book of Kings II)," and "I Look Into Rembrandt's
Eyes," by Rajzel Zychlinska. Visions
#26 Winter 1988: [37]. From the
Yiddish. "A Snow Falls" and
an earlier version of "This Is Not the Road" in CYP and GHF, later in
LL.
E661
[Poem] "How California Was." CQ: California State Poetry Quarterly 15.1 (Spring 1988): 71. Written c.1978.
Reference is to Kramer's
longtime friend and collaborator Serge Hovey, a victim of Lou Gehrig's
disease. Revised in IND.
E662
[Poem] "Neighbors." NER/BLQ: New England Review and Bread
Loaf Quarterly 10.3 (Spring 1988):
282. In IND.
E663
[Poem] "Outside Penn Station." Black Buzzard Review #1 Spring 1988: [10] In IND.
E664
[Poems] "Reflections and Other
Poems." Kenyon Review 10.2 (Spring 1988): 110-11. Includes "Reflections,"
"Blizzard" (as "North of Wilmington" in Bitterroot,
see G ), and "Passengers"
(see G ). In IND.
E665
[Translation] "The Lost Roses," by Abraham
Sutzkever. Midstream 34.2 (February/March 1988): 9. From the Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E666
[Poem] "On My Sixtieth Birthday." Confrontation 37-38 (Spring/Summer 1988): 238. In RE.
E667
[Translations] "A Black Man Has Fallen Asleep"
and "Two Stones," by Rajzel Zychlinska. Visions #27 Summer
1988: [22-23]. From the Yiddish. “Two Stones” in GHF and LL.
E668
[Translation] "The Soul of the Fiddle," by Shike
Driz. Jewish Currents 42.6 (June 1988): 24-5. From the Yiddish. Includes a biographical sketch of Driz by Kramer. In CYP.
E669
[Translations] "Translations From the Yiddish by Aaron
Kramer." Bitterroot 27.93 (Summer 1988): 49-65. Twenty-four translations including: "The Jobless Bricklayer" by Joseph
Greenspan (49), "Stained Leaves" by Kadia Molodowsky (50),
"Heshvan (October)" Line 2:
"Sutumn" for "Autumn" and "All the Forbidden
Roads" by Rochel Korn (51), "The Little Breadwinner and Her
Father" by Sara Barkan (52), "A Dishwasher" by Hinde Zaretsky
(53), "The Trees Lead" by Reuben Eisland (53), "Hunger
March" by Louis Miller (54), "From the Depths" by Shmuel Don
(55), "Watchman of the Dark" by Jacob Glatstein (55), "At the
Window" by Celia Dropkin (56), "Woolworth Building" by Yehoash
(56), "My Muse" Line 9: "desertd" for "deserted"
by I.L. Peretz (57), "Some Words There Are" by Zische Landau (57),
"Get Up At Break of Day" by Leib Kvitko (58), "It's Gay
Out" by Moishe Nadir (58), "Cabbage" by Leib Kvitko (59),
"In and Out" by Peretz Markish (60), "Spring Song" by
Shimeon Frug (61), "Russia" by Abraham Liessen (62),
"Morning" by Miriam Ulanover (62), "Over the Sea Without a
Visa" by Yosl Kotler (63), "A Bit of Bread" by Chaieh Ledik
(64), and "And Have There Been Many More Days Allotted?" by Jack
Gordon (65). From the Yiddish. All in CYP except the poems by Miller,
Zaretsky, Ledik, and Gordon. Ledik and Gordon in LL.
E670
[Translation] "And Blue Bursts Just the Same From
Heaven," by Izzy Charik. Jewish
Currents 42.7 (July/August 1988):
10. From the Yiddish. Includes a biographical sketch of Charik by
Kramer. In CYP.
E671
[Translation] "A Winter Song," by Nahum
Yud. Jewish Currents 42.7 (July/August 1988): 11. From the Yiddish. Includes a biographical sketch of Yud by Kramer. "Yud" as Yid" on cover. In CYP.
E672
[Translation] "Our
Days," by Yuri Suhl. Outlook 26.8 (August 1988): 4. From the Yiddish. Kramer's first translation, done about 1940, subsequently
revised. Kramer given no credit in
text.
E673
[Translation] "In Each Yiddish Word," by Dovid
Hofshtayn [sic]. Outlook 26.8 (August 1988): 17. From the Yiddish. Kramer given no credit in the text. In CYP.
E674
[Poems] [Four poems] and "Sonnets." riverrun (Fall 1988): 2, 8-10, 25, 41, 45. "Sonnets" includes "I and the Universe" (8),
"Farewell Dinner" (9), and "Judgment (for Elinor Bumpers)"
in RE (10). Also includes "The
Vote" (2), "Gifts" (25), "Regrouping" in RE (41), and
"Crossing the Sound" (45) which are misattributed to William
Thierfelder. A tipped-in sheet reads
"The staff of Riverrun would like to apologize / to Aaron Kramer /
for incorrectly attributing four of his poems / to another in this
issue." All seven poems are
sonnets.
E675
[Poems] "Granddaughters," "In One
Fall," and "Anniversaries." The Lyric 68.4 (Fall 1988): 91. "Granddaughters" in IND; and
"Anniversaries" untitled as part three of "Nightsongs."
E676
[Translation] "Safad," by Ricudah Potash. Bitterroot 27.94 (Autumn 1988): 28.
From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E677
[Translation] "Autumn," by J.I. Segal. Bitterroot 27.94 (Autumn 1988):
54. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E678
[Poem] "Apostate." Bitterroot 27.94 (Autumn 1988): 64.
E679
[Translation] "August 12, 1952," by Joseph
Kerler. Jewish Currents 42.9 (October 1988): 14. From the Yiddish. In lines seven and
twenty-six: "and" improperly added by the editor. Includes a
biographical sketch of Kerler by Kramer.
In CYP.
E680
[Translations] "Three Poems," by Abraham
Sutzkever. Jewish Currents 42.9 (October 1988): 15-17. From the Yiddish. Includes "My Mother
(concluding sections)," "A Sword With Wings," and "Let Each
Be a Fortress!" Includes a
biographical sketch of Sutzkever by Kramer.
First two translations in CYP and LL; “Let Each Be a Fortress!” in
LL..
E681
[Translation] "Poland's Sons (from `In
Canada')," by Sholem Shtern. Jewish
Currents 42.9 (October 1988):
44. From the Yiddish. Includes a biographical sketch by Kramer.
E682
[Poem] "The Funeral of Yuri Suhl." Jewish Currents 42.10 (November 1988): 14. Published in observance of the second
anniversery of Suhl's death.
E683
[Translation] "A Song About Yiddish," by Binem
Heller. Jewish Currents 42.10 (November 1988): 15. From the Yiddish. Includes a biographical sketch of Heller by Kramer. In CYP and LL.
E684
[Translations] "Three Poems," by H. Leivick. Jewish Currents 42.10 (December 1988): 22-23. From the Yiddish. Includes "If the Road's Long," "Mine," and
"My Father Used To Call It 'Chtsos'." Includes Kramer’s biographical sketch of Leivick . In CYP. “My Father . . . “ also in LL.
E688
[Translation] "Florida," by Celia Dropkin. Jewish Currents 42.10 (December 1988): 24. From the Yiddish. Includes a biographical sketch of Dropkin by Kramer.
E686
[Poems] [Three poems] Journal of Poetry Therapy
2.2 (Winter 1988): 131-33.
Includes "Catching the 8:32" (131), "Mourning Doves"
(131-32) in RE, and "Confession" (133).
1989
E687
[Poems] “The Door” and “Going In.” Wind 19.65 (1989): 15-6.
E688
[Poem] "Gringo Insurgent." California State Poetry Quarterly 16.1/2 (1989): 17-18. From the group "My Mexico is Not Your
Mexico." c1974. In RE.
E689
[Translation] "The Chimney," by Joseph
Rubinstein. Bitterroot 28.95
(Winter 1989): 25. From the
Yiddish. In CYP.
E690
[Poems] "Postoperative Care" and
"Anniversary." Journal of
Humanistic Psychology 29.1 (Winter
1989): 54-58. "Postoperative
Care" is a group of four poems: "The Bus Ride," "The
Walk," "Coming Back," and "Marvels." Numbers three and four (untitled) and
"Anniversary" in IND.
E691
[Translation] "Three Roses (excerpt)," by Avrom
Sutzkever. Outlook 27.1 (January 1989): 11. From the Yiddish. "Even" for "Ever" in line four. Three
stanzas; stanza one published here for the first time. Stanzas two and three in CYP.
E692
[Translation] "At the Blazing Bonfire," by David
Seltzer. Jewish Affairs January/February 1989: 13. In CYP.
E693
[Translations] [Four translations]. Midstream 35.2 (February-March 1989): 20, 33, 45. Includes "Forgive" by Malke Heifetz-Tussman (20);
"Rome, October 7" by Meyer Shtiker (20); "The Lost Roses"
(33) and "The Third Hand" (45) by Avraham [sic] Sutzkever. From the Yiddish. All in CYP. Sutzkever also in LL.
E694
[Poem] "Centennial: Live From the
Met." Sycamore Review 1.1 (Spring 1989): 44-45. In IND.
E695
[Poems] [Two poems]. Journal of Poetry Therapy
2.3 (Spring 1989): 211.
Includes: "In Early Spring" and "Rain." "In Early Spring" in IND.
E696
[Poems] [Three poems]. Prairie Winds
Spring 1989: 2-4. Includes
"Half-Hour Stroll" (2) in IND untitled as part one of "Going
In"; "Canadian Geese" (3) in IND; and "A Few More Poems For
Your Comment" (4).
E697
[Translation] "A War Mother," by Sara
Barkan. Outlook 27.4 (April 1989): 8. From the Yiddish. Kramer not credited. In
CYP.
E698
[Translation] "Alone," by Nahum Bomze. Bitterroot 28.96 (Summer 1989): 12.
From the Yiddish. In CYP and LL.
E699
[Poem] "Wives." Bitterroot 28.96
(Summer 1989): 39. In IND.
E700
[Translation] "The Ballad of White Bread," by
Itzik Manger. Bitterroot 28.96 (Summer 1989): 47. From the Yiddish. In CYP.
E701
[Poem] "New Decade." NER/BLQ 11.4 (Summer 1989): 438.
E702
[Essay] "Poetry for Liberation." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 29.3 (Summer 1989): 370-79.
E703
[Poem] "Grandmother." Midstream 35.5 (June/July 1989): 15.
Written c.1980. In IND.
E704
[Translations] "Katharina" and “Die
Unbekannte," by Heinrich Heine. Cumberland Poetry Review Fall 1989: 56-61. From the German. Two
hitherto unpublished translations of Heine.
Kramer’s titles: “Katherina” and “The Unknown One.” Includes facing German text.
E705
[Review] "Book
Reviews." Outlook 27.11 (November 1989): [np]. A review of My Father Abraham: A
Collection of Poems by Harold Black.
Published by Spring Lake Press, Bethesda MD.
E706
[Letter] "Thanks, But .
. . ." The Record (Patchogue, NY) 23 November 1989: [np]
E707
[Poem] “Proctoring Exams in the Great Hall.” Bitterroot 29:97 (Winter 1980/90): 23.
1990
E708
[Poem] "Scenic Spot." Black Buzzard Review 3 (1990): [25].
E709
[Translation] "Submarines," by Rajzel
Zychlinka. Visions International 33 (1990): [26]. From the Yiddish.
E710
[Letter] "Poet and Editor in Dialog." Outlook 28.1/2 (Jan./Feb. 1990): 17.
Kramer's response to the December 1989 Outlook in which he is
characterized as "Poet Laurate of the Jewish Left." Includes an
interesting acknowledgement from editor Henry Rosenthal.
E711
[Translation] “My Neighbor Has Died,” by Rajzel
Zychlinska. Outlook 28.3 (Mar. 1990):
21. From the Yiddish. In GHF as “My Neighbor.”
E712
[Essay and translation] "A Lullaby of the Holocaust." Journal
of Humanistic Psychology 30.2
(Spring 1990): 51-4. Kramer's brief
historical essay about Yiddish lullabies introduces his translation from German
of "A Cradlesong for Myself: the
Song of a 17-Year-Old" by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger.
E713
[Poems] [Two poems]
Cumberland Poetry Review
9.2 (Spring 1990): 20-21. Includes:
"Morning" (20) and "Without a Camera" (21).
E714
[Poem] "Spring Show." Lyric 70.2 (Spring 1990): 36.
E715
[Poems] [Two poems]
Prairie Winds
Spring/Summer 1990: 24-26.
Includes: "Our
Friends" (24) and "Greg Norman's Five-Wood" (25-6).
E716
[Essay] "Poetry and Group Process: Restoring
Heart and Mind." Journal of
Poetry Therapy 3.4 (Summer 1990):
221-27.
E717
[Poems] [Three poems] North Atlantic Review
2 (Summer 1990): 106-10.
Includes: "In Early Spring" (106), "Barcelona: The Last
Night" (107-08), and "Time Machine" (109-10). "Barcelona" and "Time
Machine" in I.
E718
[Translation] "You Are Tired of Sun and Frolic,"
by Israel J. Schwartz. Bitterroot 29.98 (Summer 1990): 30. From the Yiddish.
E719
[Translation] "Rock Yourself, Heart, and Rock,"
by A.M. Dillon. Bitterroot 29.98 (Summer 1990): 36. From the Yiddish.
E720
[Translation] "The Sick Child," by Yehoash. Bitterroot 29.98 (Summer 1990): 44.
From the Yiddish.
E721
[Translations] "Two Poems," by Rajzel
Zychlinska. Jewish Currents 44.8 (September 1990): 27. Includes: "Perhaps" and
"Fall." From the
Yiddish. In GHF. “Perhaps” in LL.
E722
[Translation] "We've Not a Crust," by Izzy
Charnik. Jewish Currents 44.9 (October 1990): 25. A lullaby from the Yiddish.
E723
[Translation] "A Lullaby for American-Jewish Children
in 1940," by Melech Ravitch. Outlook 28.11 (November 1990): 17. A lullaby from the Yiddish. In LL.