Original sentence: His death has been referred to by Ellen Reiss in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known.In 1925 his "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" won the Nation Poetry Prize (and would later be published in "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems").In 1978, 5 1/2 months months after surgery for a benign prostatic condition—surgery that had left him weak and in great pain—Eli Siegel chose to commit suicide—an action that his followers prefer to describe as "death with dignity".The following lines from "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" stand for that just way of seeing — which he had:
Edited sentence: His death has been described by Ellen Reiss in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known.In 1925 his "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" won the esteemed Nation Poetry Prize (and would later be published in "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems").In 1978, 5 1/2 months months after surgery for a benigh prostatic condition--surgery that had left him weak and in great pain, Eli Siegel chose to die with dignity.The following passionate, logical, musical lines from "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" stand for that just way of seeing — which he had: