Present Waking Life
Larissa MacFarquhar’s 2005 Profile of the author of “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” and other poems.
MacFarquhar profiles America's most elusive poet — a man whose work resists interpretation even as it invites immersion
November 7, 2005
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