Raphael Rudnik was an American poet and literary scout. He was a graduate of Bard College

Bard College

Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...

 (B.A., 1955) and Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 (M.A., 1968). He published the poetry collections, A Lesson From the Cyclops (Vintage, 1969), In The Heart or Our City (Random House, 1972), and Frank, 207 (Ohio University Press, 1982). The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...

 for poetry and the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for translation, his poems have appeared in The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, The Quarterly Review of Literature, New Directions, and other journals. A completed book-length poem, On the Train, is in manuscript. He taught literature at Columbia University and elsewhere.

Works (Lessons from a Cyclops.)