On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, David Zauhar wrote:
> For anyone thinking about starting a lit mag, Cuddihy's memoir strikes me
> as possibly very helpful. If I remember correctly, it's entitled _Call it
> Ironwood_, and it's an issue-by-issue account of the magazin's history. If
> you ever see the whole run of the thing (30+ issues), you'll first be
> amazed by the range of poets he and Mary published.
The actual title is _Try Ironwood: An Editor Remembers_. Published in 1990
by Rowan Tree Press of Boston, introduction by Robert Hass.
DZ
> The memoir is hard enough to find in the U.S., and may be
> impossible to track down elsewhere, but it's worth looking for.
> My first sentence implies that this is a how-to book: it's not. It
> would be more accurate to say it's an (auto)biography of a great poetry
> magazine.
>
> David Zauhar
>
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Ron Silliman wrote:
>
> > It's been noted on the Poetics List that Michael Cuddihy, the poet and
> > former editor of Ironwood, passed away a few days ago at 68 at his home in
> > Arizona. Michael was wheel-chair bound from polio but managed to get more
> > things accomplished in his lifetime than 10 fully-abled men. In the 1970s in
> > particular I would run into him and his wife Mary at George and Mary Oppen's
> > flat on Polk Street in San Francisco, during that period when George was
> > slipping into that long silence of Alzheimer's disease. I liked Michael a
> > great deal and was amazed at how open he was to so many different kinds of
> > poetry. He also had a great sense of humor, which made him genuinely fun to
> > be around. I miss him already.
> >
> > Ron Silliman
>
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