WRITING EDITING PUBLISHING : A MEMOIR

Here are letters from some of my poet,writer, editor, and academic friends that appear interesting and worth sharing for memories —personal, professional, academic, and poetic—part interesting, part casual. It’s memory of not I, who wrote, but others who wrote me: together they could make up a ‘memoir’, providing the life experiences that might be of some value in contrast to what we experience now, or what was otherwise drab and dull in my own life. I sensed in them a nostalgic hangover, and a possible document of the past and the new in the making, useful to literary historians, researchers, scholars, and fellow poets and critics interested in my poetry and other writings of my correspondents. They talk freely and frankly, and appear one despite differences, just as I seek to come to terms with myself, discovering a pattern in the quilt of existence, threading different minds, contexts, and experiences.