Krepostnoi
Increasingly disenchanted
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He won plaudits for a poem* about a Japanese Maple that he imagined flourishing long after his own demise. I read an interview with him relatively recently in which he said that in fact he had outlived the tree.I heard an interview with him last year, and he was genuinely embarrassed that he wasn't dead yet (!). He does have a terminal illness, it's just taking a very long time to do him in.
*Can I just take a moment to add how downright strange it was for me to learn that a man I only knew from laughing at Japanese telly programmes was actually also lauded as a serious poet. We should all be people of parts, of course, and it sure beats Patrick Moore's damn xylophone, but still: I found this surprisingly hard to compute.