Let's make this birthday one to remember.

90 years old (Born on May 02, 1934)

Happy Birthday, Lewis Turco! May your day be filled with poetic license to indulge in cake and rhyme without worrying about meter or form. From "The Compleat Melancholick" to the indispensable "Book of Forms," you've guided countless poets through literary labyrinths—though rumor has it even Satan himself took notes after reading "Satan's Scourge."

Your recent works like "The Museum of Ordinary People" and the reflective brilliance of "A Sheaf of Leaves: Literary Memoirs" remind us that ordinary moments can indeed become extraordinary under your pen. Here's wishing you another year full of inspiration—and fewer run-ins with melancholic muses!