A source of inspiration

• Autores: Neil Baldwin
• Localización: RBM : A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, ISSN 1529-6407, Vol. 1, Nº. 1, 2000, págs. 30-32
• Idioma: inglés
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  • It was the turbulent spring of 1970. My second semester as a graduate teaching fellow at SUNY/Buffalo was drawing to a close, and it was time to start thinking about the focus for my oral qualifying examination. Beyond that, an even more terrifying prospect loomed before me like a ghostly, 300-page shadow, what to choose as my Ph.D. dissertation topic¿? I remember stopping timidly into the offices of various English Department eminences grises�Leslie Fiedler, Marcus Klein, Robert Creeley�and speaking with them about my newly kindled passion for modern poetry. In those heady days just after the untimely death of Charles . . .