The Washington Post, September 23rd, 1989
Ina 1980 poem, Robert Penn Warren, who died at 84 on Sept. 15, used the word appallment. That was the first I had seen it. A look in the dictionary turned up appallingly, an adverb, but no appallment, a noun. I phoned Warren at his home, in Fairfield, Conn. His wife answered. When I explained the reason for my call, she let me know, politely, that with her standing guard over the time of one of the West's literary masters I'd have a better chance of getting through if I were selling vacation homes in Vladivostok. Besides, she and her husband were just going out and were already late. But thank...
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