Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

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He attended local public schools in the Bronx hated the experience and was bored in class. Before becoming a writer he worked odd jobs including driving a cab moving furniture busboy potter woodworker and door-to-door salesman. Phoenix AZ: Oryx Press.

He lives in Seattle Washington with his wife Carolynn.