James was influenced by Spicer, but never met him, having arrived in the
U.S. well after Spicer's death. Our Axel's bar-lit conversations
covered this topic. Liddy was long involved with an influential poetry
publication in Ireland (the name I forget at the moment, though i used
to have a copy of the "best of") that was a conduit of sorts for the
new work coming from America and elsewhere and a haven for Patrick
Kavanagh and other fine Irish writers. Jess
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