Robert Kramer

Robert Kramer, born in New York City, is a widely published scholar, critic, playwright, poet, and translator of European literature. He has received six awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has been a Fulbright Scholar for a year of research in Munich, Germany, and a Swiss Government Scholar for a year in Bern, Switzerland. He has been a guest professor at various colleges, such as the University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, and Haverford College, and has lectured at such institutions as the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Therapist Association. He has given readings of his poetry and translations on radio and television on both coasts, and at such colleges as New York University, The University of California, and Harvard University.

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The Concert and other poems

Robert Kramer

The Concert You recall that certain moment during the concert at the lakeside spa where Kafka once had stayed, in the mountains north of Prague, when--after the voluptuous melancholy of a sentimental Viennese waltz-- ...