“Rod McKuen Was the Bestselling Poet in American History. What Happened? He Sold 60 Million Books and 100 Million Records. Why Was He Forgotten?”, 2022-10-10 (; backlinks):
The Browser summary [cf. fashion cycles, decline of poetry/history]:
Notes on collective cultural amnesia, prompted by the rediscovery of a man once mocked as “the most understood poet in America”. Rod McKuen sold millions of books and records in the 1960s and 1970s, but was then almost entirely forgotten.
He walked the line between “being beloved, productive and yet also totally disparaged”. His most popular poem is titled “A Cat Named Sloopy” [text].
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