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Dear listees, thought I'd pass this on, for the benefit of those who aren't on the Buffalo Poetics list, where it appeared: Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 21:36:56 -0800 From: Marjorie Perloff <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: James Laughlin One of the great literary men/women of our time died today: James Laughlin. Many on this list whose work he published and who cherished his own poetry, memoirs, and essays, this is a sad, sad, day. I'm in Indiana doing a residency (Patten Lectures) and can't write at normal speed, but I'm sure there will be more material coming in from Eliot Weinberger or Jerome Rothenberg etc. etc. I just wanted people to know. Marjorie Perloff ------------------------------ And for those who don't know, Laughlin was the founder and guiding spirit of New Directions Books, as well as being a fine poet himself. I think I may have mentioned to some of you that when I met him in New York in 1986, on hearing I'd just done a reading with Charles Bernstein at the Ear Inn, he asked me: "So are you a Language poet, then?" "Well, I use language," I mumbled in nervous reply. "That's no answer," he chided me. Ken %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%