[Cohsl-list] Plea for help: Quarterly Review of Literature

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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) ----- Τέλος προωθημένου μηνύματος ----- _______________________________________________ June Samaras KALAMOS BOOKS (For Books about Greece) 2020 Old Station Rd Streetsville,Ontario Canada L5M 2V1 Tel : 905-542-1877 E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com (or) kalamosbks(a)aol.com www.kalamosbooks.com -- June Samaras KALAMOS BOOKS (For Books about Greece) 2020 Old Station Rd Streetsville,Ontario Canada L5M 2V1 Tel : 905-542-1877 E-mail : kalamosbooks(a)gmail.com www.kalamosbooks.com