btw: Ralf-Rainer Rygulla - born 1943 and still around (and on facebook) - this translated from German wikipedia
Rygulla completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Essen from 1959 to 1962, lived in London for three years, and studied at the Cologne University of Education. He was a translator and editor at März Verlag and a freelance editor at Rowohlt. In 1967 he published the anthology Underground Poems at the Berlin Oberbaum Presse, and as an expanded edition f*** you! at Melzer (1968), which – like Höllerer/Corso's Young American Poetry (1961)[2] and Paetel's Beat (1962)[3] – brought the latest beat and underground poetry from the USA closer to the West German public. f*** you!, named after Ed Sander's f*** You: A Magazine of the Arts (1962f.), introduced Charles Bukowski, Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan, Ed Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg, Philip Whalen, Jack Spicer, Edward Dorn and Leonore Kandel.[4][5] In 1980, a new edition of the volume was published by Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag.
In 1969, Rygulla published the anthology Acid. New American Scene together with Rolf Dieter Brinkmann in März Verlag, which is still one of the most important testimonies of the American underground literature that followed Beat poetry. Together with Brinkmann, whom he had known since their mutual bookseller apprenticeship, he also undertook lyrical experiments such as "The Jovial Russian", the 'translation' of the Apollinaire poem "La jolie rousse" without knowledge of the original language.[6] In 1995, Rygulla published Frank Xerox's Wild Dream and other examples of his collaboration with Brinkmann in Rowohlt's literary magazine.[7]
Books
as editor: Underground Poems: Underground Poems. Last American Poetry. English and German. Translated, edited and with an afterword by Ralf-Rainer Rygulla. Oberbaumpresse, Berlin 1967 (contains poems by Ed Sanders, Charles Olson, Adam Saroyan, Max Finstein, Ed Dorn, M. L. Rosenthal, Frank O’Hara, Bob Kaufmann, Robert Creeley, Max Silverton, Philip Whalen, Jack Spicer).
as editor: f*** You! Underground poems. Melzer, Darmstadt 1968.
with Rolf-Dieter Brinkmann (editor): Acid. New American scene. March, Darmstadt 1969.
The agony of the Belgians. Songs. Paria, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
On the young poet’s letters from 1961 to 1970. In: Karl-Eckhard Carius (editor): Brinkmann. Cuts in respiratory protection. Edition text + kritik, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-88377-938-6, pp. 114–121.
with Marco Sagurna (ed.): The East shines. Poetic sounds from Europe. Illustrations by Andree Sandkötter, Axel Dielmann, Frankfurt a. M. 2022, ISBN 978-3-86638-306-7.
