Irving Layton, once described as “the Picasso and Mae West of poetry,” died Wednesday in Montreal at 93. He was suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. Born Israel Pincu Lazarovitch in Tirgu Neamt, Romania, in 1912, his family immigrated to Canada in 1913.
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