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Life Timeline (1941)

Meets cousin Jordan Massee and his companion Paul Bigelow. "Night Watch Over Freedom" oublished in January Vogue. In February, stricken with first cerebral stroke, radically impaired vision, and stabbing head pains. Although sight returns, not ambulatory for over a month. "Reflections in a Golden Eye", dedicated to Annemarie Clarac-Schwarzenbach, published by Houghton Mifflin on February 14. "Brooklyn Is My Neighborhood" published in March Vogue. Reeves, seeking reconciliation, goes to Columbus in April and returns with Carson to New York City to W. 11th Street apartment. "Books I Remember" published in Harper's Bazaar. Carson and Reeves meet composer David Diamond on May 2, beginning complicated three-way relationship with him. At Yaddo Arts Colony, in Saratoga Springs, New York, from June 14 to August 22, meets Katherine Anne Porter and Newton Arvin, and writes "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe". Reeves lives with David Diamond in July to mid-November. While in Rochester, Reeves forges checks on Carson's account, and she considers divorce. "The Russian Realists and Southern Literature" published in Decision. "We Carried Our Banners--We Were Pacifists Too" published in Vogue July 15. From August 22 to August 30 accompanies Newton Arvin, Granville Hicks and his family to QUebec. Visits Smith College on return trip with Newton Arvin in Northampton, Massachusetts. "The Jockey" published August 23 in New Yorker. Returns to New York from Yaddo in September and initiates divorce proceedings. Diamond dedicates ballet, The Dream of Audubon, to Carson and Reeves. Returns to Columbus in mid-October. "The Twisted Trinity", first published poem (later set to music by David Diamond), appears in November-December Decision. Critically ill with pleurisy, strep throat, and double pneumonia in December and January. Writes short stories "Madame Zilensky and the King and Finland" and "Correspondence" during winter.

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