“Ninety-six pages, large magazine-sized, no extra fat or extra blank pages, from Empty Bowl Press, out of Anacortes, Washington—with a foreword by Clem discussing a 1959 photograph of Robert Frost assuming a sermon-on-the-mount position, holding court outside beside a large rock at the Breadloaf Writing Conference in Vermont. Clem is seated at Frost’s feet, lighting a cigarette besides Anne Sexton. Also pictured, with his back to us, is George Baker, curator and last-minute stand-in for Theodore Roethke, who is credited by Clem for having spurred him on to write. Clem had shown up on a whim, a scruffy twenty-something, and was pulled into this photo apparently for his bohemian beatnik presence. At some point during the conference Baker cornered Clem to ask what kind of writing the young man did, at which point Clem answered, none. “Well then, maybe it’s time you began,” was Baker’s response.”