If I'm not mistaken, Theodore Roethke also popped Wallace Stevens in the nose. As I recall, Roethke walked through a door, sighted Stevens, mauled him, was lifted off, then was carried away by the police within a matter of a few minutes. Those were the days of the really good parties, apparently. Did anyone else ever belt Stevens? Perhaps this is a chance to draw up the canonical list of Stevens-batterers.... At 12:07 PM 11/12/98 -0500, you wrote: >If I recall from reading Carpenter's biography of Pound, ol' Ez took a >few boxing lessons from Ernie Hemingway. Increasingly irritated by >Pound's frenetic and presumptuous style, Hem finally popped Ez in the >head and the lessons ended. > >Hemingway also credited with breaking Stevens's nose in an >alcohol-induced quarrel in Key West. > >Guess he didn't care for poets. > >Joseph Conte > >Attachment Converted: "c:\program files\$network\eudora\attach\vcard9.vcf" > Joe Ahearn ---------------------------- [log in to unmask]