Memories on a great
day for gay rights--Whitman, Parker, Sendak, and putting a joyous love
sequence in a major American Literature anthology.
5 March 1992 Xeroxed Oak Leaf cluster for e/o [in class]
from SB [Studies in Bibliography]—Thought
later, at home, of putting it (the 12 [poem sequence]), in [next edition of] Norton Anthology of American Literature.
12 March 1992 MS [Maurice Sendak] called 9:30—good talk. Told him my “Live Oak, with Moss” idea
(NAAL)
Read all 12 parts to him on the phone.
5 April 1992 Wonderful hour long call from MS. Grateful to
me for opening him to WW.
6 April 1992 Want to emphasize the joy of Maurice’s reading
of WW. I gave a great gift to the man who has everything--& he says it is
already changing his life—he feels it will s/h affect Dumps.
18 April 1992 Julia Reidhead [at Norton] said OK on “Live
Oak, with Moss.”
MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE, p. 110: 18 April 92—Julia Reidhead agreed to print Live Oak, with Moss in NAAL. [First time this gay love sequence
was printing in an American literature anthology. I still believe printing it
was the most important thing I ever did for the profession.] {The bracketed comment is in Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative.}
26 June 2013. Relief and hope.
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