Eric Torgersen has published poetry, fiction, essays and a full-length study of Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker. He also translates German poetry, especially that of Rainer Maria Rilke and Nicolas Born. He was born in Huntington, New York. He has a BA in German Literature from Cornell University; after two years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, he earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. He retired in the spring of 2008 after 38 years of teaching writing at Central Michigan University. He lives in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan with his wife, the quilt artist Ann Kowaleski. He’s available for workshops and readings. Click here to reach him by email.
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Eric Torgersen's newest book is The Man Who Loved Rilke, March Street Press, 2008. An American poet's struggle with the great German master.
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“The Man Who Loved Rilke is a wonderful story of lost peripheries, a work of great amplitude.” Jim Harrison
“This moving tale of poets and poetry, with its ambivalence toward Rilke, the man and child, and Rilke, the poet and god, is a delightful—both humorous and compassionate—examination into the depths of creativity.” Judith Minty
“This is a resonant, strange, and strangely familiar dialogue of soul and self which I first read, in manuscript, seventeen years ago. Back then I wrote that I thought it was brilliant. Today I read it again, and I believe I was right.” Dan Gerber
64 pp. isbn 1-59661-086-7. $15..
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available in Michigan at The Book Mark in Mt. Pleasant, Horizon Books in Traverse City and Snowbound Books in Marquette
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