that when poets write about writing poetry, they often sound a little depressed. My psychiatrist-writer friend Anna Fels, whose book Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women's Changing Lives you should read right away if you haven't already, takes a clinical view: "As a shrink," she wrote in an e mail after reading yesterday's post, " I've wondered sometimes if such poems represent depressive periods in bipolars or cyclothymics since so many modern poets have been bipolar."from The Nation: And Another Thing: Poems about Poems: Why Not?
also, re Grace Paley, Seven Days: Missing Moment
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