The Passing of a Poet

Cormac McCarthy is dead.

Photo portrait of Cormac McCarthy used as the first-edition back cover of his 1973 novel “Child of God.”

A light goes out.

Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men,” has died at 89 of natural causes. His son, John Francis, confirmed the news to the press.

I’m a late admirer of McCarthy. Recent times have…