From Poetry Foundation obituary:
We learned late last night that Theodore Enslin — “one of our greatest poets working quietly outside the noisy mainstream,” as Matthew Henriksen put it — has left us. Enslin, a prolific poet identified with Cid Corman, Charles Olson, and particularly the Objectivist tradition, was born in Pennsylvania in 1925 and became a resident of Maine in 1960. He was the author of over 60 books of poetry, including Then and Now: Selected Poems 1943-1993 (edited by Mark Nowak in 1999), and the epic, two-volume Ranger (1978 and 1980). Richard Owens of Damn the Caesars wrote, in a 2006 review of One Day And How It Was (Granite Press 2005), of Enslin’s output:
I pity the fool burdened with the task of compiling a comprehensive bibliography of Ted Enslin’s published work. The spontaneous, decentralized nature of small press publishing undoubtedly confounds such a task further. Here one minute, gone the next. Tracking down several dozen small press publications and magazines might be difficult but it is nonetheless possible; tracking down a body of published works comparable to the number pumped out by Enslin would require a Herculean effort.
