Mr. Ricard’s poems, collected in volumes including “Rene Ricard 1979-1980,” “God With Revolver” (1990), “Love Poems” (1999), were often intensely personal and self-conscious ...

René Ricard 1979–1980; God With Revolver (1990), which included his artistic representations of the poems; Trusty Sarcophagus Co (1990); and Love Poems (1999), which collected his verse ...

The notorious landmark on West 23rd Street was, in fact, Ricard's on-off home for more than four decades. In its cloistered confines he wrote poetry and ... of boxing called love / Then, happy ...