Volume 32, Number 10 · June 13, 1985
Immortal Bird
By Gore Vidal
The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
by Donald Spoto
Little, Brown, 409 pp., $19.95
Tennessee: Cry of the Heart
by Dotson Rader
Doubleday, 348 pp., $16.95
Although poetry is no longer much read by anyone in freedom's land, biographies of those American poets who took terrible risks not only with their talents but with their lives, are often quite popular; and testimonies, chockablock with pity, terror, and awe, provide the unread poet, if not his poetry, with a degree of posthumous fame. Ever since Hart ('Man overboard!') Crane dove into the Caribbean and all our hearts, the most ambitious of our poets have often gone the suicide route:
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