Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Hayden Carruth

Born: August 3, 1921
Died: September 29, 2008 (aged 87)
Bio: Hayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.
Known for:
- Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey (1996)
- Collected shorter poems, 1946-1991 (1992)
- Toward the distant islands (2006)
- From snow and rock, from chaos (1973)