 He graduated from Rice University, University of California, Riverside, and State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1969 with a Ph.D.He is a professor of English at Rice University, and lives in Houston, Texas.Though Freedman's biography may muffle Rilke's voice, it comes through like a ringing glass in "Uncollected Poems", translated by Edward Snow, who over the years has given readers without German award-winning versions of "The Book of Images" (1905) and "New Poems" (1907-1908).