Rendezvous with death …

… Sightings: Mortality as Muse - WSJ. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Cancer was discussed frankly in print far less often when the title poem of "Dying: An Introduction" appeared in The New Yorker in 1967, which is one reason why Mr. Sissman's work was so widely noticed at the time. But his modest renown didn't outlive his death, and not even the posthumous publication of "Night Music," a collection of his poetry that came out in 1999, was able to restore it.