Alison writes:
> "Firstly, the poet is a fiction. The poet has nothing to do with the
> quotidian self who bears children, buys the milk, scrubs the cupboards,
> yells at her partner and forgets to do the tax return.
No, no. It's the poet self that yells at the partner and forgets
the tax return.
The quotidian self is the one that picks up the partner's shoes
(and puts them in the shoe rack where he will never find them)
and gets on with the tax return.
Just joking. I do know what you mean, really.
Although I'm not sure I agree that the poet is a fiction.
What if I put on clothes that, to my mind, are a poem (now there's a
thought!), and go to a poetry workshop and talk about poetry
and write poetry? One could argue that the other participants
are getting a fair dose of my poet self, and therefore it is real,
at least to them.
Janet
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