Anne Wright

“I think he was astonished he won it, ... I wasn't, of course. He considered himself a minor poet, ...

“was very compassionate. He wrote a lot about people down on their luck.”

“Someone once asked him, 'How many poets do you know there?' ... He said, 'Thank God, none.' ”

“He was fascinated, ... He and Betty Kray [a former director of the Academy of American Poets] wou ...

“James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and l ...