Asa was an American-born poet,
typographer and publisher who lived about a mile down the road from this grave
in Hebden Bridge. He was born in New York and lived in Paris after World War
Two. He co-founded the Zero Press and published poets. Besides writing poet he
was a printer, book designer and typographer. When he was 40 he co-founded and
managed the pioneering Trigram Press which published many well-known poets.
In his sixties he and his partner Agnetha Falk, moved
to Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire and ran a second-hand bookshop. Oddly he’s
buried within speaking distance of another east-coast American poet Sylvia
Plath. She get’s hoards of visitors but I’ve never once seen anyone visit Asa’s
grave.