Basil King carries within him a profound array of things seen and things heard first hand, things whose immediate memory is fading from our world ever faster. And these are not just "ordinary" things but encounters with the lives and visions of some of the greatest creative minds of the post World War II era. This is not to say that Basil King is some relic, a storehouse of bric-a-brac from the past: on the contrary, his ability to apprehend the...