Departures from Rilke

As If: Variations on EnriqueAnderson-Imbert is StevenCramer's first chapbook. Hisprevious seven books are TheEye that Desires to Look Upward(Galileo Press, 1987); TheWorld Book (Copper BeechPress, 1992); Dialogue for theLeft and Right Hand (LumenEditions/Brookline Books,1997); Goodbye to the Orchard(Sarabande Books, 2004)-winner of the 2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New EnglandPoetry Club and named a 2005 Honor Book in Poetry by theMassachusetts Center for the Book-Clangings (Sarabande Books,2012); Listen (MadHat Press, 2020), long-listed as a "must read" bythe Massachusetts Center for the Book; and Departures from Rilke(Arrowsmith Press, 2023). His poems and reviews have appearedin The Atlantic Monthly, Field, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The NewRepublic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and other journals.His work is represented in anthologies such as The Autumn HouseAnthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Autumn House Press,2005 and 2011), The Book of Villanelles (Knopf Everyman's LibraryPocket Poets Series, 2012), and The POETRY Anthology, 1912-2002(Ivan R. Dee, 2002). He has also written essays for Simply Lasting:Writers on Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press, 2005); Touchstones: Ameri-can Poets on a Favorite Poem (Middlebury College Press, 1996); andUntil Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the RecentWork of W.S. Merwin (WordFarm, 2012). Recipient of fellowshipsfrom the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the National Endow-ment for the Arts, he has taught literature and writing at Benning-ton College, Boston University, M.I.T., and Tufts University; and hefounded the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing atLesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.