Raymond Federman (1928 - 2009)

We’ve just caught wind of Raymond Federman’s passing from the poetry blogosphere—it’s posted on Pierre Joris’s Nomadics blog and Charles Bernstein’s EPC Buffalo blog—and want to take note. You can read Federman’s notes on translation, “Translating Ginsberg’s Queer Shoulder,” along with his French translation of Allen Ginsberg’s “America,” here at About.com Poetry—and lots more at his Web site. Fare thee well, M. Federman!