You can also hear the authors:

• www.lyrikline.org: Poetry from all over the world
• www.poetryarchive.org: American Poets
  

Raymond Federman was born in France in 1928. He was the only one in his family to survive the Holocaust, because when the Gestapo showed up, his mother hid him in a closet. Federman emigrated to the USA in 1947, where he eked out a living doing odd jobs. In 1954 he began studying comparative literature at Columbia University. He concluded his studies at UCLA in 1963, with a doctoral dissertation on Samuel Beckett, who had become a close friend of his. Often written in both English and French, his works include novels, poetry collections and volumes of essays, as well as academic papers, articles and translations.

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