Nowhere on Google or other sites I tried could I find a photograph of any of Tom's books I used to have but have disappeared over the years like too many (loaned to people who never brought them back, or in some cases stolen by people while at a party at my many apartments over the years) nor could I find any photos of Tom himself back when I knew him in the 1970s. We weren't close friends, merely acquaintances (we read our poetry together a few times, and in fact I think he was the other reader the first time I read at the St. Mark's Poetry Project in NYC) but I liked him and admired his unique contributions to "American" poetry and poetry in general and his commitment to that.
Here's a sweet remembrance and obit of Tom by his close friend (and now mine) poet Burt Kimmelman. My heart goes out to the family, friends and fans he left behind.
[PS: And here's a photo of what he looked like after he moved back down South and I lost touch with him:]
2 comments:
I was hoping not to have to confess this, but I was the one who stole and/or and borrowed all your Tom Weatherly books. Sorry.
But, seriously, I hate to hear of these losses.
I met him at a poetry reading in the 70's, we were both on the bill. He was a mentor and more and I mourn his departure, sudden and surprising, in the middle of a conversation, an unanswered question arising from his new poem on the death of Walter Dean Myers, another wonderful hard working writer about how to be in touch.
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