p.s. Technology Note:

Honig was a teenager in Brooklyn during the Depression. Once I heard him say:

"When I was young I thought I'd become a poet, because the only tool you needed was a pencil."

(p.p.s. And about writing implements: see Anastasios Kozaitis's blog - read the poem by Oksana Zabuzhko (read it to the end). AND (meanwhile) Anastasios' curious counter-intuitive comment on reading long poems (LPs). "Momentum."