The Last Lullaby

Araon Kramer was a leading resistance poet throughout the McCarthy era, with such texts for music as Denmark Vesey and such volumes as Roll the Forbidden Drums! Professor of English at Dowling College since 1961, and founding coeditor of West Hills Review: A Whitman Journal, he produced such scholarly works as The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry and Melville's Poetry: Toward the Enlarged Heart. In 1989, 370 of Kramer's translations from the work of 135 Yiddish poets appeared in a widely praised anthology, A Century of Yiddish Poetry, which he also edited. Kramer has written his own books of poetry, including Indigo and Other Poems.