"In this exquisitely thoughtful little collection, Robert Kramer guides his readers, holding aloft a lantern lit by lucid verse and canny eye, through night, through fog, through mist, to the secret place where we surprise Life: fast asleep, and fitfully dreaming. This urbane poet has brought us along on a search for understanding, and with him we have done much spelunking into the caverns of the soul." — Donald Lev, poet, publisher of  Home Planet News  "Robert Kramer offers this collection, entitled Wordglass, replete with sensitive similes that convey deeply felt and liminal experiences, many of them erotic. Most of these poems also feature instances of a final image that is shocking, grotesque, or improbable, yet very real." — Laurence Nannery, author of The  Estoteric Composition of Kafka’s Corpus  "These twenty-three poems are meant to be read with pleasure. But to fully appreciate them, read them out loud — and discover our wonders — and Kramer’s pleasures, honoring poets we all applaud, German and French poets of our time and sensitivity, and intelligence. In fact not only will these poems give you unexpected pleasures, but they will also allow you to delve into Kramer's multiple sensitivities and talents." — Serge Gavronsky, Professor of French Literature, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York

Wordglass

Literature & Fiction

KRAMER, ROBERT

Poetry

Poets Wear Prada

White Pimp

Biographies & Memoirs

Dorrance Pub. Co.

<p>Publisher's notes: "The long life of German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) spanned one of the most turbulent eras in his country's history. The Great War of 1914-1918, the Weimar Republic, the reign of National Socialism, and the horrors of World War II all left an indelible imprint on both the man and his work. Sander, a conventional studio portraitist who transformed himself into an avant-gardist, exemplified the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of his time. He was at once innovative and deeply wedded to the past, blending a progressive vision with a traditional view of society and his craft."</p>

August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch, 1904-1959- Man of the Twentieth Century, Rhineland Landscapes, Nature Studies, Architectural and Industrial Photographs, Images of Sardinia

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Publisher

Memoirs Of A White Pimp

Memoirs of a White Pimp

Community & Culture

Xlibris

Xlibris, Corp.

<p>Robert Kramer is a poet of perception and reflection; he observes, he thinks and feels.  He makes us notice the margin of our lives, redeems the drabness of the daily, makes the trivial significant, the forgettable unforgettable. Enhancing Kramer's nuanced moods and descriptions is a remarkable precision of imagery. The new boy in the neighborhood "slouches and scuffs the black-tarred street / with his ragged canvas sneakers." Especially memorable are the lines at the end of a poem.  A sudden childhood memory?startles, like the echo of a cough in an empty cathedral. His father remembers the frozen pondwhere girls and boys in brightest sweaterswould skate and sport on the ragged ice, avoiding the driftwood that protruded from the surface, like the clawing hands of drowned hoboes. And in a woman's fantasy A leering sailor in a red-striped under-blouse,tight white bell-bottomed trouserswanders through her Parisian dream and nightmares, a red pompom bobbing on his jaunty slanted cap. Following these impressions are vignettes of writers and artists of the past, evoked with Kramer's subtle and meaningful precision.  And to round things out, he offers a series of short poems patterned on Chinese poets of another age, treasured moments of joy and fantasy and grief. Kramer's world is simultaneously tiny and vast.  He invites us to partake of it.  If we do, we will be the richer for it. Clifford Browder</p>

In the Margins / Al margen

DARKLIGHT PUBLISHING LLC

The Birth ofRelationship Therapy: Carl Rogers meets Otto Rank

Psychosozial Verlag GbR

Starting Places: A Conversation with Robert Kramer (FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen)

Humor & Entertainment

Eisenschitz, Bernard

Pantenburg, Volker

Turigliatto, Roberto

Movies

Austrian Film Museum

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