An excellent poet, one of the relatively few postwar poets whose work I have found worth reading and having on my bookshelf. I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times in New York.
May he rest in peace.
With the saints give rest.
He was a brilliant poet. I met him, oddly enough, in Spain in the early 2000s. He was giving a reading at the Circulo de Bellas Artes.
I think he was in some ways the last of a generation, that is, the generation of poets who really knew and cared about how to write poetry.