May 18, 2006
Being a true account of my trip to Dartmouth through the Great
Flood (greatest downpour of rain on those granite hills in 70
years) to meet my translator. Includes a jaunt to Detrroit,
my mechanical incompetence, dining at Big Boy's, a tribute to Tim
Smith, a brief account of the great conference, literary chit chat
beneath paintings of men and dogs chasing foxes, a reading of my
poem by myself and my great translator and a moving account of my
arm wrestling a Russian poet as I recite "Paradise Lost."