Walter Martin is a poet and translator. Bom in Texas in 1943, he read French at Stanford, continued his studies in Paris and taught English in Nepal. He lives near San Francisco. For the past twenty-five years, he has been owner of Chimaera, a book[1]shop in Palo Alto, California, which specializes in poetry and music. He is at work on the tmaux et Camees of Theophile Gautier.