Dear all, & specifically, dear Lawrence Upton; please forgive the following, possibly inappropriately personal (not to mention prose-related) question, especially considering my usual lurking slumber on this poetics listserv. It's like this, I have been reading John Irving's new novel In One Person (a novel about sexual exploration/identity ending with the advent of the AIDS epidemic in New York in the early 80s. Parenthetically, quite well written & entertaining, albeit with many parallels with his bestselling world according to Garp). Anyway, my question pertains to one of the protagonist's friends/lovers, one gay poet by the name of Lawrence Upton :-) out of simple curiosity I was wondering if there is any relation to the real Lawrence Upton or if is this just a synchronicitous coincidence. all best, alles gutes, Jeroen
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