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Aaron Fogel

This is a discussion of the late Aaron Fogel and his poems, by David Lehman, Bruce Kawin, and myself. We are writers who were close friends of Aaron Fogel at Columbia University and afterwards. Aaron grew up in Queens and attended Flushing High School. When he entered Columbia he took Kenneth Koch's creative writing class, which I also attended. He became a contributor to the Columbia Review literary magazine and eventually its editor. Upon graduation, Aaron was awarded a two-year Kellett Fellowship to Cambridge University, after which he returned to Columbia for his PhD. He left Columbia to become a professor at Boston University and spent the rest of his career there. Aaron died in 2024. The purpose of this video is to introduce Aaron through a few of his poems and other reminiscences. It is of course a failure, as anyone who knew him will immediately recognize. Aaron was a complicated, imaginative, and very funny person. Way too much for a YouTube video. Bruce Kawin was a professor at the University of Colorado from 1975 to 2015 in the English Department and the Film Studies Program. He has written books on film and literary theory. David Lehman, the editor of The Best American Poetry and The Oxford Book of American Poetry, is the author of many books of poems and non-fiction. Mitch Sisskind has published four books under his own name and many ghostwritten volumes. He was editor of The Stud Duck, a periodical whose second issue included Aaron Fogel's poem "The Printer's Error," whose text is below: The Printer's Error Fellow compositors and pressworkers! I, Chief Printer Frank Steinman, having worked fifty- seven years at my trade, and served five years as president of the Holliston Printer's Council, being of sound mind though near death, leave this testimonial concerning the nature of printers' errors. First: I hold that all books and all printed matter have errors, obvious or no, and that these are their most significant moments, not to be tampered with by the vanity and folly of ignorant, academic textual editors. Second: I hold that there are three types of errors, in ascending order of importance: One: chance errors of the printer's trembling hand not to be corrected incautiously by foolish professors and other such rabble because trembling is part of divine creation itself. Two: silent, cool sabotage by the printer, the manual laborer whose protests have at times taken this historical form, covert interferences not to be corrected censoriously by the hand of the second and far more ignorant saboteur, the textual editor. Three: errors from the touch of God, divine and often obscure corrections of whole books by nearly unnoticed changes of single letters sometimes meaningful but about which the less said by preemptive commentary the better. Third: I hold that all three sorts of error, errors by chance, errors by workers' protest, and errors by God's touch, are in practice the same and indistinguishable. Therefore I, Frank Steinman, typographer for thirty-seven years, and cooperative Master of the Holliston Guild eight years, being of sound mind and body though near death urge the abolition of all editorial work whatsoever and manumission from all textual editing to leave what was as it was, and as it became, except insofar as editing is itself an error, and therefore also divine.