Geoffrey Lehmann and Edwin Frank on Rilke, NYC

Join Geoffrey Lehmann and Edwin Frank at Community Bookstore for a conversation about Rainer Maria Rilke and Fifty Poems, a collection of Rilke's poetry, newly translated from the German by Lehmann, out from NYRB Poets in October.

Geoffrey Lehmann is an Australian poet. His Spring Forest was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1994, and his Poems 1957–2013 won the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2015. He co-edited with Robert Gray Australian Poetry Since 1788. His most recent book is Evolutionary Geopolitics: The Road to Human Egalitarianism. He lives in New South Wales.  

Edwin Frank is the editorial director of New York Review Books and the author of Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.