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When bad things happen to good poets; FICTION: It's 1962, and 88-year-old Robert Frost heads to Russia for a visit with Nikita Khrushchev as the Cold War looms.(ENTERTAINMENT)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20080323
Author:Bailey, Katherine

Byline: KATHERINE BAILEY

Special to the Star Tribune

In a fog of megalomania, Robert Frost undertook a grueling trek to Russia to negotiate with Nikita Khrushchev. It was autumn, 1962, and the 88-year-old poet, suffering from deafness and a painful prostate condition, still craved the limelight.

In his brilliant novel based on Frost's life, "Fall of Frost," Brian Hall suggests a further motivation for the white-maned poet's demand to meet with Khrushchev. Frost, according to Hall, wanted to make up to John F. Kennedy for having "blown" his performance at the ...

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