Summary
Lehman pays tribute to his friend Richard Howard, a college professor and former poetry editor of Shenandoah, Western Humanities Review, The New Republic, and The Paris Review. One of poetry's great pinch-hitters, Howard is known for his authentic love of poetry and ideas. One way it expresses itself is in his commitment to young poets, the mentoring of whom he takes as a civic responsibility.
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How Rich
The root of influence is astrological and is related to influenza . . .
Thirty years ago I met Richard Howard in the same place where we have met many times since: his fifth-floor apartment in a building called the Waverly Mews ...See the full content of this document
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