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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