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What a life! You have to love this:

"With great ingenuity, he created Kayak's archly cruel rejection slips: Victorian engravings depicting a beheading, or a mountain climber slipping into a crevasse, with a brush-off caption appended."

and this:

"During the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1957, the House Committee on Un-American Activities summoned him to testify in San Francisco, where he delivered what may well have been his finest performance.

When asked to state his profession, he answered: "I am a gardener. I do underground work on plants." He then refused to answer questions about membership in the Communist Party, "on the grounds that this hearing is a big bore and waste of the public's money."

The director of the Shakespeare Festival demoted him to spear-carrying roles."

And especially this:

"The long list of poets and writers who found a home in his pages included W.S. Merwin, Anne Sexton, Robert Bly, Margaret Atwood and Hayden Carruth."

Everywhere we turn is loss.

Thanks,

Bill


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