Books By Stephen Rodefer - Author

The American writer Stephen Rodefer, who lives in Paris, is the author of many volumes of poetry, prose, plays and translation. His work extends the tradition of the Black Mountain and New York schools of American poetry. His book of long poems, Four Lectures, was a winner of the San Francisco State University Poetry Center's Annual Book Award in 1983, for 'the best book of poetry published in the US in the previous year.' His translations of Sappho, Villon, Dante, Baudelaire and others have been widely noted. Rodefer has taught at universities in the US, UK, and France, and his recent essay on canon-formation, 'The Age in its Cage', appeared in the Chicago Review. His collected critical essays, The Monkey's Donut, will be published in 2008. He died in August 2015