Saturday, August 22, 2015

Obituary notes - publisher & poet

Publishers Lunch

Author, former book publishing executive, and co-founder of Common Sense Media Liz Perle, 59, died on Thursday following a lengthy battle with breast cancer. 

During her book publishing career, Perle had been publisher at William Morrow/Avon, Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall Press, and she was an editor-at-large for Harper San Francisco after relocating to the West Coast.

PW obit



Shelf Awareness

William Jay Smith, a former U.S. poet laureate "whose work was known both for its acuteness of observation and acuteness of craftsmanship," died Tuesday, the New York Times reported. He was 97. Author of several volumes of poetry, as well as criticism, memoirs and translations, Smith served from 1968 to 1970 as the consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, as the poet laureate's post was then known.

From his poem "The World Below the Window":

The geraniums I left last night on the windowsill,
To the best of my knowledge now, are out there still,
And will be there as long as I think they will.

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