WWII B-17 BOMBER CREW WITH ME IN FRONT ROW, SECOND FROM RIGHT "My introduction to Modern Poetry came on an airbase in the English Midlands, from which I was flying bombing missions over Germany.  After an exhausting daylong flight I would go to the Officers Club on the base and drink whiskey sours to unwind.  It was there that I met my first poet, a ground officer named...."

"The perfect aesthete, Dunstan had a wonderful dome of a head....He used the word 'gay' with abandon in his poems, though it was still not in general use...."

DUNSTAN THOMPSON

NEIL DERRICK & EDWARD FIELD photo by David Alexander "Working in the typing pool of an advertising agency,  one day the supervisor assigned the typewriter next to me to a new temp, a sturdy, intelligent young man from California.  It was a case of immediate attraction between WASP and Jew."