Armand Schwerner

Armand Schwerner

Armand Schwerner (1927-1999) was an avant-garde Jewish-American poet. His most famous work, "Tablets", is a series of poems which claim to be fictional reconstructions of ancient Sumero-Akkadian inscriptions, complete with lacunae and "untranslatable" words. [ [http://www2.umaine.edu/npf/cat57.html Armand Schwerner ] ]

Schwerner was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and his family moved to the United States when he was nine years old. He attended Columbia University (B.A. 1950, M.A. 1964) and taught at universities in the New York area until his retirement in 1983.

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* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_199509/ai_n8732955 Interview from American Book Review]
* [http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/schwrnr.htm Armand Schwerner Survey]
* [http://bostonreview.net/BR25.5/zawacki.html Review of The Tablets]
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