Yes, Ben Mazer, an excellent scholar, did much for Landis Everson. At least
he was finally lucky, even if it took decades for Everson to appear on the
scene.
On 3/19/07, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> joe green wrote:
> > Landis Everson's Everything Preserved: Poems
> 1955-2005 (ed. Ben Mazer) Published by Graywolf
> Press Fulcrum is pleased
> to announce the publication by Graywolf Press of Landis
> Everson's collection, Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005.
> Everson, 79, was an inner member of the Berkeley Renaissance
> during the late 1940s along with Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer,
> and Robin Blaser. In 2003 Fulcrum's contributing editor, the
> poet Ben Mazer, contacted Everson in regard to a piece Mazer
> was writing for Fulcrum on the Berkeley Renaissance. The
> publication of Everson's poems in Fulcrum 3 rekindled his
> interest in writing, which had been dormant for 43 years. He
> has since written over two hundred new poems which have
> appeared in dozens of literary periodicals
> > worldwide. In 2005 Everson won the Poetry Foundation's
> newly established Emily Dickinson Award. Everything
> Preserved: Poems 1955-2005 is edited by Ben Mazer.
> >
>
> Fairly remarkable. I daresay this guy deserved to win and to promptly
> NOT gather notoriety. One can only hope he gets attention from whoever
> the right people are and is left alone by the Hello Schweetheart crowd
> that infects every field of human endeavor. If Helen the V. discovers
> him, he's screwed.
>
> ken
>
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> Kenneth Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
> Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts. -- Ruth
> Gordon
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