Gerald Williams

GERALD WILLIAMS is an editor, writer, and translator (French, Dutch, German) living in Manhattan. Essays, short stories, and po­ems have been published in the Massachusetts Review, Harvard Review, New Letters, Callaloo, Beacon Street Review, the California Quarterly Press, Bieler Press, Coffee House Press, and Michael Coughlin Publications. He was edi­tor at the Olympia Press (Paris, New York, Amsterdam) and Dutch-English translator at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. He has translated four art books for Harry N. Abrams (NY). His chapbook, Blowing Up Hitler — a biographical poem on the first man to try to kill Hitler — is Google accessible. Out of print, copies are still on sale here in the US and in Ger­many via Amazon. His essay "The Astounding Power of Penmanship" is due out this winter.

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