Jim Bartruff's blog https://www.ablemuse.com/blog/8089? en Turner Cassity https://www.ablemuse.com/blogs/jim-bartruff/turner-cassity? <!--paging_filter--><p>Met Mr. Cassity a number of times in Los Angeles. A small, thin and carefully-spoken man, who, according to the friend and fellow librarian he had traveled to meet, intentionally wore his button-down collars too large--and he wore ties always. Recall James Merrill (they were about the same height) looking more at Mr. Cassity's collar than his eyes as they discussed &quot;The Changing Light . . . &quot; A gentleman with manners of the kind then and now seen but rarely, with a tart tongue that carried nicely in his work.</p> https://www.ablemuse.com/blogs/jim-bartruff/turner-cassity?#comments Poetry Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:48:45 +0000 Jim Bartruff 1381 at https://www.ablemuse.com