[New-Poetry] Tom Bridwell

[Alan C Golding]

Very pleased to see Skip's mention and recommendation of my old friend Tom Bridwell, with whom I've been sadly out of touch the last few years.  With his then-wife Marilyn Kitchell, Tom ran the very fine letterpress outfit Salt-Works Press for many years, publishing Lyn Hejinian and Ted Enslin among a wide range of others.  His *Notes from the Cistern*, which splices M.F.K. Fisher with the mechanics of construction work (which was how Tom made his living then) and of living through a divorce, is one of my favorite books of the last ten years--published in 2001 by Brian Richards' Bloody Twin Press, which has also done a Collected Howard McCord.

Alan Golding