Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: At the lectern, [James Baker] Hall's family

and friends read from his books as they talked about him. They described a man driven to rise at 4 a.m. every day not just to make art but to teach young Kentuckians that they, too, have a universal responsibility to bring art into the world.

Not that Hall, a former Kentucky poet laureate, took everything seriously, they said.

from Lexington Herald-Leader: Hundreds memorialize James Baker Hall

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