re Robert Clairton. All I found about his life:
"ROBERT CLAIRMONT, poet, was born in 1902 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he grew up. He attended...
Prayers so very welcome. The state most south of Brazil is flooded, more than 30.000 people are homeless.There are also several dead and disappeared...
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row