Hail and farewell

 

Did you know that Peter Porter died?  http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/23/peter-porter-obituary

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1709

I am nowhere near as good on modern poetry—hell, on poetry, full stop—as an unrepentant English major* who dotes on, oh, say, Yeats, Auden and Frost, to name the first three that drift to the surface, should be.  And an awful lot of Porter is, well, hard.  But I think either of these ought to make you want to read more: