isn't the outsider a romantic myth? Aren't we all - even the greatest
artists - insiders to a a degree? I suspect even *-------------* goes
to shop at Tescos, has relations etc etc.
On 6/30/07, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jon Corelis wrote:
> >
> > But less abstractly, this is the sort of poem which makes me want to
> > run out into the street and wave it in people's faces shouting "Do you
> > see what she's doing?" But I suppose that would make people think I'd
> > gone mad.
>
> That's okay, Jon, most of us here are somewhat askew. That means we're
> in *our* "right minds." I'm confused about Mark's reference to
> Dickinson as a outsider. Naively I thought any artist worth a damn was
> an outsider to what's going on around him/her/it. Who's an insider,
> Billy Collins?
>
> ken <...after all these years>
>
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