Amomancer Trivia, III.

Okay, third installment of my offered trivia about William F. DeVault:

41. The poet's first lit mag publication was his work "Nevermore My Steel" in the now defunct journal "The Rose's Hope"
42. The title of his poem "time consider as a helix of semi-precious stones" was taken from the novella by Samuel R. Delany. He says he did that for Ray Bradbury lifting "I Sing the Body Electric" from Walt Whitman.
43. His "Romantic and Erotic Poetry Group" chats on America Online, back in 1996, were granted a terms of srevice waiver to allow for steamy imagery and strong language.
44. He has, in the past, enjoyed remarkable success as a consultant in proposal writing and management, working for and with such companies as Computer Sciences Corporation, CACI, Perot Systems and GE.
45. He despises his popular poem "weaver" and refuses to do it in public readings.
46. "Monday Mourning Poem" was inspired by an early morning phone call from the friend who would later become his second wife.
47. His favorite place is the high desert near Joshua Tree in California. Several of "The Panther Cycles" were written there.
48. The poem "sparks, like frozen lemons" was inspired by a woman with extremely bright blonde, lacquered hair.
49. His two most well known "breast" poems were written to two different muses. "Gibbous" to his first wife. "the pale of your breasts" was to Brigit.
50. "the trespass of pale poetics" was written while observing a really odious open mic poetry reading in Santa Monica.
51. The "lost clay wizard" in the poem "night of a thousand colours" was one of a matched set. He kept one and gave the other to "The Panther" when he moved to LA, where he kept it in a shelf, facing East. towards where she lived.
52. The poem "TRIUMPH" was twice removed from books in planning after it was found the publisher could not find a font small enough to avoid line-wrap. The poem did not appear in book form until 2005's "INVOCATO".
53. There are at least seven totem-muses he has written just a single poem two, including The Princess, Demon Tourmaline, Th Pale Fox and Arachne.
54. Of all his muses, he has only publicly read with one of them, Karla F. Sasser, "The Mad Gypsy", who was the inspiration behind "copper", "possession" and "you could not say the words".
55. The poem "Gentle Soul" was written in Anastasia's Asylum, a coffeehouse in Los Angeles. He saw a young woman in there and wrote the poem about her, hand copied it, and presented it to her as he left. He never looked back and never saw her again.
56. His editing battles with his high-school newspaper editor lead to at least one occasion where he pulled a work just before publication and they were forced to run white space. He has this reputation with editors...
57. Seventeen years passed between the writing of "Bragi Bleeds" and "Bragi, awakening in his tomb".
58. He once was given a tryout as writer by Marvel Comics, at the request of Stan Lee.
59. "Funeral Home" was written about a childhood friend who died in a car accident. "Words Upon the Death of a Friend" was written for a childhood friend who died of AIDS.
60. His original pony-tail was clipped off in 2003, it sits on a shelf next to his computer. The new one is longer.

Three-fifths of the way through. Learning anything? I am...