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Aaron Kramer
Aaron Kramer (December 13, 1921 in Brooklyn – April 7, 1997〔( Aaron Kramer. University of Illinois Press, 2006. Web. July 2, 2010 )〕) was an American poet, essayist, college professor and a translator best known for his volume of poems titled ''Seven Poets in Search of an Answer'' (1940).
Kramer was a professor emeritus at Dowling College in Oakdale, L.I.〔Aaron Kramer, Poet And Translator, 75. ''The New York Times'', April 12, 1997. Web. July 2, 2010. .〕 He had a wife, Katherine; two daughters, Carol Kramer of Tucson, Arizona, and Laura Kramer of Montclair, New Jersey, a sister, Regina Rothman of Los Angeles, and two grandchildren.
== Biography ==
Kramer wrote his first protest poems in the mid-1930s when he was barely a teenager, through his pointed critiques of the 1983 war in Grenada and Ronald Reagan's 1985 visits to Nazi graves in Bitburg. .〔 Kramer wrote poems about the Holocaust for four decades. In the 1930s, He started writing poems about the Spanish American War and it continued through most of his life. He also had an interest on writing in and commitment to testify about African American history. .〔 His first poems about exploited labor appeared in 1934 and his last were published in 1995. Kramer’s 1937 poem “The Shoe-Shine Boy” published when he was only fifteen years old.〔 He adopted traditional meters—favoring iambic trimeters, tetrameters, and pentameter—in part to install a radical politics within inherited rhythms. His earliest poems about the suppression of freedoms in the United States date from 1938 and continued writing them through the 1980s. Kramer wrote his first pamphlet in 1938 titled The Alarm Clock, it was funded by a local Communist Party chapter. .〔 Kramer also produced translations of “Rilke: Visions of Christ” and “Der Kaiser von Atlantis”, the opera composed by Viktor Ullmann in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. Kramer was one of the few American writers to produce one a series of poems about McCarthyism, from satiric "The Soul of Martin Dies" (1944) to "Called In" (1980), his poem of outrage against those compelled to testify before the House of Unamerican Activities Committee.〔 Aaron Kramer first gained national prominence with Seven Poets in Search of An Answer (1944) and The Poetry and Prose of Heinrich Heine (1948). His master piece is his 26 poems compromising the 1952 sequence “Denmark Vesey", which is about plans for aborted 1822 slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina.〔 In addition to his poetry, Kramer published a number of collections of translations, which includes several of his works form volumes of Heine, Rilke, Yiddish Poetry, and his poems about the Holocaust. Some of his work was translated into urdu by his life long pen friend Sohail Adeeb ( poet, critic and editor of a leading literary journal for a quarter of a century). Kramer was moved by the support he received by writers around the world who rallied to support him in his stand against McCarthyism. His critical books include The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry which was published in 1968 and Melville’s Poetry which was published in 1972.〔 Kramer collaborated with a group of artists on “The Tune of the Calliope: Poems and Drawings of New York” and was editor of the 1972 anthology “On Freedom’s Side: American Poems of Protest”.〔 He wanted to radicalize root and branch the American literary tradition, not abandon it for alternative forms. He translated and edited the work 135 Yiddish poets were published as part of “A Century of Yiddish Poetry”. Kramer had a variety of different jobs until obtaining a position teaching English that would later become Downing College.〔
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