One of his final poems, “Facing the Sea, with Spring Blossom,” might be his most memorable, but my personal favorite will always be “September,” in no small part because it was turned into a song by ...
I’ve probably been working on the same 70 or 80 poems for the last 15 ... into a mournful procession of love and grief. Named after the 2008 blaze that that destroyed master recordings at the ...