This poem combined with this piece of biography is a hell of a thing:
Yes.This is typescript version—w/ it’s “ornament” on top & “trunk”of still alive but felled evergreen.The missing “other”half is what haunted me.I think the reasons are obvious as one enters the“after”life...what’s in the “other”side of which this side is the shadow, the poem? https://t.co/RWaXeKpWKt— Jorie graham (@jorie_graham) December 1, 2018
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 1 December 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
Yes. The image I shared 👆🏼is from the memorial issue of POETRY for JM. Later, the poem would be formatted somewhat differently, as👇🏼(from the Selected), which was, according to Langdon Hammer’s bio, closer to what JM had in mind (and an echo of this Fairfield Porter print). pic.twitter.com/M1khHwRpqK— Kamran Javadizadeh (@kjavadizadeh) December 1, 2018
The Hammer bio is one of the best literary ones I've read.
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 December 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link