this is another harry redl image, of the montreal poet irving layton.
layton was a seriously crusty s.o.b., and part of the holy trinity of montreal-jewish writers.
a.m. klein (you gotta read him) was the first, writing thousands of poems from about 1920-50, before he suffered a nervous breakdown and spent the last 25 years of his life never leaving his house or seeing anyone.
then came layton, writing from about 1950-90.
then came leonard cohen.
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this looks like a photo of montreal, the graveyard that I've always been meaning to go to on the other side of the mount.
I really enjoy when blizzard writes these types of articles. informative, humanizing, historic. I think it works wonderfully in this e-publishing environment. thank-you, continue...
Don't forget Mordecai Richler! My first ever open mike reading was read at the same bar in Montreal that he read at, almost 50 years later!
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