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From: Karen Emmerich <kre2001(a)columbia.edu>
Date: Dec 11, 2007 4:56 PM
Subject: [MGSA-L] Plea for help: Quarterly Review of Literature
To: mgsa-l(a)uci.edu
Dear friends and colleagues,
I hope you don't mind my using the MGSA list-serve for something that
is not entirely Greek-focused. I'm writing to ask if any of you would
be willing to do what I hope would be a small favor for the Quarterly
Review of Literature. For those of you who don't know, the QRL was a
very important "little magazine" founded in the 1940s by Ted and Renee
Weiss; it published an astonishing array of absolutely central voices
in international literature, including some of the earliest U.S.
appearances of Seferis and Cavafy. In the 1980s the QRL began its
Poetry Book Series, which published three or four full books under a
single cover, including the first appearance in English of Nobel
laureate Wislawa Szymborska, the first book of McArthur awardee Anne
Carson, and Stathis Gourgouris's translation of Yannis Patilis's Camel
of Darkness. (For more info you can visit
http://www.princeton.edu/~qrl/.)
The QRL stopped putting out issues after Ted's death in 2003. Renee is
now trying to make sure the back issues of the magazine and poetry
book series end up in university libraries, where they will be cared
for and used. She is even willing to send boxes of books free of
charge, but is encountering all kinds of unforeseen problems in
dealing with university library staff.
So the favor I'm asking is this: would any of you be willing to put in
requests with your library staff to place an order for the volumes it
is missing, or even the entire series if your library did not
previously subscribe? Again, the books will be provided to university
libraries free of charge, so no amount would be deducted from your
buying limit. Also, I would provide you with a list of the volume
numbers your particular library was missing, and whatever other
information your library acquisitions department would need. In short,
I would make this as easy and painless for you as possible.
If anyone can do this, please contact me directly at kre2001(a)columbia.edu.
Thanks so much,
Karen (Emmerich)
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June Samaras
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(For Books about Greece)
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Streetsville,Ontario
Canada L5M 2V1
Tel : 905-542-1877
E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com
www.kalamosbooks.com