That meeting with "Hermy" prefigured the cavalcade of mystery, imagination, sexuality, danger, humor, and transformation that would mark the 23 books and 23 films Broughton produced in a life laced with travel, teaching, self-analysis, and rich and prickly friendships.
This is It
and I am It
and You are It
and so is That
and He is It
and She is It
and It is It
and That is That
—"This is It"
His work is quintessentially Californian – exploring and engaging the polar frontiers of wildness and civility, male and female, body and spirit-- with the crash of Pacific Ocean waves echoing throughout. "Ultimately I have learned more about poetry / from music and magic than from literature," he wrote.
Before he died, he said, "My creeping decrepitude has crept me all the way to the crypt." His gravestone in a Port Townsend cemetery reads, "Adventure – not predicament."
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