When I started work toward my PhD a...
When I started work toward my PhD at Brandeis University in 1977 I hadn't heard of Allen Grossman, unless within a few months I had caught forward to what everyone around me looked to know--that he was an awesome genius as a thinker about numbers and a powerful poet, someone at that time mysteriously under-recognized upon the national scene (his first book of poems with New Directions, The Woman forward the Bridge Over the Chicago River, was to appear in 1979) a man to be accounted with, a walking Mind, simultaneously intimidating and intensely encouraging to serious scholars sum of two units years ...
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