Wow. Thanks for posting the link to the doorman poem, RS. So beautifully observed, and so seemingly simple. That's how to write a posthumous tribute - all the reader's attention is focused on the person, not the poet. Recently I read Anthony Hecht's memorial poem to James Wright, and while it's brilliant poetry - it blew me away in that sense - now that I think of it, it didn't make me feel particularly sorry not to have met James Wright. I never knew this doorman, but now I wish he was still around.
[This message has been edited by Rose Kelleher (edited November 03, 2008).]
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