Name-dropping seems to have paid off for him.
Mark
At 10:30 AM 8/2/2007, you wrote:
>To the One Reading Simic
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>Penitentiaries locked down for the night,
>Thousands of felons lying awake in them,
>As we, too, lie awake, mon amour,
>Straining not to hear more than the quiet.
>The furry whiteness at the ceiling
>Of our darkened room like a patient
>Etherized upon a table in the stone-cold morgue.
>
>Do you hear the one reading Simic,
>The faint sounds he makes—licking his finger,
>Turning the pages? It could be your pulse or mine
>In these wrists we lean our cabezas against
>As if Norman Mailer had stopped by to peep
>Through that one tiny crack in our door.
>
>
>[source: "To the One Tunneling" by Charles Simic,
>The New Yorker, Jan. 15, 2001]
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>Hal
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>Halvard Johnson
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