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The death on May 7, 2009 of American-Canadian poet Robin Blaser sent me to my office shelf where I keep books waiting to be read. For three years Blaser's collected essays had burned its presence into my eyes, but only now, six months after his death, have I actually found the time to read this important book.

Raymond Federman, Smiles on Washington Square (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1995)
Raymond Federman, The Twofold Vibration (Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2000)
Raymond Federman "Reflections on Ways to Improve Death"

On Tuesday, October 6, 2009, Raymond Federman died in his San Diego home at the age of 81.

I published—or more correctly, I republished—two books by Ray, The Twofold Vibration in 2000, a fiction first published in 1982 by Indiana University Press, and, six years earlier on Sun & Moon, Smiles of Washington Square, first published by Thunder's Mouth Press in 1985.