Praise for William Baer’s
Poems and Translations:

 Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets:

 William Baer’s brilliant translation of Luís de Camões’s Selected Sonnets is a literary achievement and one that will bring renewed interest to these classic texts.  Students and all lovers of poetry will find it extremely valuable. 

— Virgil Suárez

Long overshadowed by the poet’s great epic, Camões’s sonnets emerge here in splendid isolation to reveal their own greatness.  Baer’s translations superbly capture their deepest pride, passion, pathos, and dynamic energy. 

— William J. Kennedy

 Borges & Other Sonnets:

 William Baer now steps forward into the first rank of contemporary American poets. 

— Jeffrey Hart

 William Baer’s new poetry collection is the most significant book of sonnets since Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Fatal Interview more than 70 years ago. 

— Samuel Maio

 "Borges” and Other Sonnets will come to be identified as one of the spearhead books of the new literary movement being fostered by the American sonnet. 

— Felix Stefanile

 

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William Baer, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of forty books including seven collections of poetry, most recently Formal Salutations: New & Selected Poems.  His various other books include Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets; “Bocage” and Other Sonnets (recipient of the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize); Psalter; Classic American Films: Conversations with the Screenwriters; Writing Metrical Poetry; and The Unfortunates (recipient of the T.S. Eliot Award).  A former Fulbright (Portugal) and the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, he is also the author of two collections of short fiction (Times Square and Other Stories and One-and-Twenty Tales) and six novels including the New Jersey Noir series, Advocatus Diaboli, Companion, and Murder in Times Square.  His various plays have been performed at over thirty American theaters.