Lewis Warsh (1944-2020). Photo: John Sarsgard
More sad news to have to impart, the passing of our dear friend, New York-based poet, visual artist, professor, prose writer, editor, and publisher, Lewis Warsh . He just recently celebrated his 76th birthday.
His was a legendary collaboration with his first wife, Anne Waldman and the magazine Angel Hair See Lewis on Angel Hair – here
– and Anne on Angel Hair – here
A subsequent marriage with poet Bernadette Mayer , likewise resulted in a wide range of publications – United Artists books and magazines
More on Lewis to follow –
See Lewis in The Brooklyn Rail (and this beautiful collection of tributes in The Brooklyn Rail)
Lewis in The Poetry Project Newsletter
missing you, Lewis
Missing you.
Deeply saddened ……. sending caring thoughts to all as we mourn a beautiful soul.
This human was no ordinary person. The epicenter of kindness. I keep you in my heart and your family.
Sad beyond belief. He had such a big impact on my life that i don’t think he even realized. He had the biggest heart.
A friend for 50 years.
That is sad news indeed. Lewis was such a nice guy and a terrific poet/writer/editor. We’d corresponded off & on over the years and always swapped books. The whole Angel Hair thing was a HUGE influence on me and a sort of guiding light. That story of his, “Money Under the Table,” in his collection, One Foot Out the Door, is one of my all-time favorite stories ever, right up there with James Joyce’s “The Dead” and Julio Cortázar’s “The Pursuer.” If all writers endeavored to write as true and clear as Lewis Warsh did, what a lot of fine writers we would have.
Amen, and RIP Lewis…
too soon to leave us!