James Wright James Wright Robert Bly

      
                                        
                                        
In my original Rooted Sky (1972) is a poem written for
the poet James Wright.  Years later it also became for   
a quasi-neighbor named James Wright as the result of a  
conversation between my father and that man's father.
Aware of my poem, the father of that James Wright had  
asked my father if I had written the poem for his son.
In informing me about the conversation, my father said 
he told Mr. Wright that I had.  Softly shocked, I was  
about to ask him why, but the wow of knowing my father   
had a sensitive side moved me to explain to him it was  
for a poet named James Wright but--that's okay--I'll    
just change the dedication.  The Maverick.          
                                                     
Another poem in that book is for the poet Robert Bly.  
Its title is almost longer than the poem, so I won't  
reveal the whole of it.  Imagining Myself on a Hill        
                                                   
                                                     
                                                  
                                                     
                                                    
kh00019