What's Poetry?
LEONARD BACON, friend and contributor, died on January l. He graduated from Yale with his ambition,as he once said, ”crystal clear. I knew I wanted to write poetry and nothing but poetry.”Thirty years later, after he had published several volumes and after his Sunderland Capture had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize. he was still of the same mind. “Poetry,” he said, “continues to be my blessing and my curse.”Readers will miss his exuberance. his staheart defense of the classics, his generosity, and his wit.