Bravo! More savory gossip. I was eagerly reading and trying to like Howard’s poetry from about 1980 onwards. No idea that Sandford was his partner — I read Totempole around the same time (early 80s), I think it was published by North Point Press. And erased it from my mind as soon as I’d finished. Also wicked remarks on Poirier, who knew his Moroccan proclivities? I’m a big fan of his book on Robert Frost from the late 70s… I want to read it again, that was a while ago. I saw/heard Sontag read at the Art Institute on Illness as a Metaphor, as a good number of my friends & Sidetrack acquaintances were dealing with AIDS. Sontag full of hauteur, fairly intolerable, lecturing her crowd from the mountain top. Howard was right, that girl needed to have fun. — Gearing up for your piece on Wiman which promises to be provocative. You would have loved Chicago in the 1980s, Blake.
This is gold! more of these letters, pls!!
can email you the pdf
Bravo! More savory gossip. I was eagerly reading and trying to like Howard’s poetry from about 1980 onwards. No idea that Sandford was his partner — I read Totempole around the same time (early 80s), I think it was published by North Point Press. And erased it from my mind as soon as I’d finished. Also wicked remarks on Poirier, who knew his Moroccan proclivities? I’m a big fan of his book on Robert Frost from the late 70s… I want to read it again, that was a while ago. I saw/heard Sontag read at the Art Institute on Illness as a Metaphor, as a good number of my friends & Sidetrack acquaintances were dealing with AIDS. Sontag full of hauteur, fairly intolerable, lecturing her crowd from the mountain top. Howard was right, that girl needed to have fun. — Gearing up for your piece on Wiman which promises to be provocative. You would have loved Chicago in the 1980s, Blake.