[Peteris Cedrins [Peteris Cedrinš], Latvian-American poet and translator.] Collection of English language poetry typescripts, most apparently unpublished, including ‘A Working’ (8pp, in 20 sections) and ‘Aphrodite Weaning’.

Peteris Cedrins possessed an interesting dual heritage: born in the US to exiles from communism, he grew up in Chicago, was educated at Bard College (NYS), and settled in Latvia on the fall of the Soviet Union. He published in English and Lavian in the US, UK and Latvia. See the appreciative obituary by Jeffrey Sommers, posted on the ‘Counterpunch’ website on 11 August 2022: ‘Memoriam: Latvia’s Peteris Cedrins, Last of the National Poets’. Another online source states that from 1991 he was ‘a lecturer at the University of Latvia, Daugavpils Pedagogical University, head of foreign relations of the Writers’ Union of Latvia, secretary of the international board of the Daugavpils Multinational Cultural Center, etc. Cedrin’s father, Dr. Janis Cedrinš compiled the writings of his brother poet Vilas Cedrinš, who died in exile in Vorkut, in two volumes.’ The present collection consists of loose duplicated typescripts of English language poems, a few including duplication of manuscript interpolations. Three of the poems have details of publication; the others are apparently unpublished. 70pp, 8vo. On one side each of 70 pieces of A4 paper, with three of the pages typed lengthwise. In good condition, on browning high-acidity paper, with a handful of leaves with creasing and wear to extremities. Chopped-line free verse in the Beat fashion. A few poems have dedications: ‘for Jeffra [Sommers, see above]’, Gerrit (two), ‘for Daedalus’, ‘for Harry Crosby’. Most poems with date and place, a few items possibly disordered. The following are the longer pieces: A Working, 8pp (‘1991. 18. May’); Aphrodite Weaning, 4pp (‘1992.4.III. Riga’), with many duplicated manuscript interpolations; The Lake Cities, 3pp (‘Annandale-on-Hudson, 1990’); Pfaueninsel, 2pp (‘1991. 10. XL., Berlin’); “& the mist that is more constant than your vows” - Hart Crane, 2pp (Berlin, 1991. 2. XII); untitled prose poem, beginning ‘You search for depths in people when you can’t get any deeper tan te length of yr cock’, 3pp (‘1992. 22. III. Courland - Riga | Ingunair’); Deglava Bridge, 2pp (‘15-16. II. 1992. Daugavpils - Riga); A Valentine for Jeffra, 3pp (‘This poem first appeared in HODOS, ed. Drew Gardner’); Blue Wind, 2pp (‘This poem first appeared as a broadside, April 1991’); Suburban, 2pp. See Image.