About Cliff Crego

About Cliff Crego

clip of self portrait

Photos: Self-portrait,
in the Wallowas

Self-portrait II Cliff Crego is a composer, conductor,
teacher, poet and art photographer. He is
currently on an extended bike / ski /
mountaineering trek of the Pacific Northwest.

Weekly updates of his photos, poems &
metaphysical journals for this trip can be
viewed at: Picture/Poems Photoweek
Northwest.

Websites by Cliff Crego...

	(1) Picture/Poems A collection of 300 primary photographs with accompanying texts and poems.Weekly features include new photographs at Images of the Natural Year presented together with recent translations from contemporary Dutch and German literature, Metaphysical Miniatures, as well as new poems and audio recordings. (PhotoWeek) (P/P Books & Posters)
	(2) The Circle in the Square A new music, poetry and dance performance project. The website includes a collection of some 50 scores for various instrumental combinations, essays, QuickTime, PDFs as well as a special section for children. (go to the What's New or New Recordings or Star Cycle pages)
	(3) The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke A collection of the best of Rilke in German as well as some 100 new English translations. Includes a bilingual archive of recordings, a concise hyperlinked biography and an extensive, annotated page of links to other websites.(P/P: The Rilke Archive) (Posters) (index of translations)
	(4) Straight roads, Slow rivers, Deep clay Bi-weekly presentations of contemporary Dutch and Flemish poetry in English translation, with commentary, recordings and photographs by Cliff Crego (index of translations)

Regarding the translations: Cliff Crego is fluent in a dialect of Swiss German spoken
in the Alps, where he has lived for many years, as well as High German and Dutch.
Special thanks to Nancy Crego, Mr. Crego's sister and long-standing collaborator, as well
as Hollis Helmecio, Carol Beck, Carolyn Chryst, Linda Smith and Patrick Kennedy, who
over a period of some months have gathered together in late night sessions listening to,
commenting upon and correcting the English versions of the texts presented here.

Comments and criticism may be addressed to Cliff at:

crego@picture-poems.com

Or you may write his current address in the Northwest at:

Cliff Crego
GENERAL DELIVERY
203 Main Street
Richland, Oregon 97870
U.S.A.

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