It always seemed to me that JM`s Muse left her after "Hejira" whereas LC is obviously still in vigorous communion with his. So this little snub of hers may be sour grapes; or perhaps she still smarts over some element of their long-ago affair. (Recall that her "Rainy Night House"...

Since LC has been made only barely audible on recordings for over a decade , how in the world can he be made so on stage? His voice has been ravaged for so long now that this is either an act of masochism, sadism, both, or career suicide. And, believe me, I speak as a career-spanning fan of all of h...

Because someone will want to know:
To a Teacher is a poem that first appeared in The Spice-Box of Earth and later in Selected Poems; Because Of among those presumably to be collected for Book of Longing (or ...of Blue Coffee or whatever it may ultimataly be entitled).

The poem is: Another Man`s Woman Now in the form of another man`s woman. Sitting at our table. Holding her cup in the morning light. Saying: Into your life I will tangle one whom you cannot approach in order that you may refine your love for me. Look at my beauty now. It appears in the volume Death ...