So good to see this thread here, Katy (and to see you back on the Sphere). Just a quick note, for now... When I was working on a DLB entry about Michael Donaghy ten years ago, we corresponded by email, and at one point I pressed him about F. Olsen's review. I think I asked for his response to it. He finally admitted he'd made it up. Typical, isn't it? So him! Of course, by that time he was self-conscious about himself as a self-mythologizer, and for all I know, he might have been making up having made it up.
It's terrible that his collected poems and prose are already out of print. I can hardly believe that.
Thanks so much for hosting this discussion.
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