![]() “I went because I realized very early that I would only get one shot at the planet, so I might as well see for myself what was on offer.” “People were continually asking me, in so many words, what a literary guy who knew about poetry was doing in joints like these,” he wrote in the memoir “Where Did It All Go Right?” that was published in 1999. ![]() He would go on to write novels and poems and to complete nonfiction books about life “beyond the fiddle” of the book world, whether rock climbing (“Feeding the Rat”), swimming (“Pondlife”), the search for oil in the North Sea (“Offshore”) or poker (“The Biggest Game In Town”). ![]() He began as a highly influential critic, who as poetry editor of the Observer, was an early champion of Plath, her then-husband Ted Hughes, John Berryman and others he believed would enliven contemporary poetry. ![]() Alvarez or Al Alvarez, he had a long, productive and controversial career. ![]() He was 90.Īlvarez died Monday in London of pneumonia, according to his literary representatives, Aitken Alexander Associates. Alfred Alvarez, a critic and author with a non-literary streak who helped shape the modern poetry canon in his native England, explored everything from oil digging to poker and wrote a best-selling history of suicide bracketed by his attempt on his own life and the death of his friend Sylvia Plath, has died. ![]()
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