Les Murray has publicly stated he is aspergic. Andrew
2008/9/18 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>:
> Max, now you've hit a Proper Poetry Debate topic: Wordsworth. I won't try
> to enter it, can only remembering, as a student, enjoying the idea of
> 'cherubs trailing clouds of immortality' [glory should be in that quote
> somewhere] and linking that hint with the ever-loved RW Emerson's 'Oversoul'
> [what's not to like about a man who writes forceful essays on such as
> 'Self-Reliance'?], and all of that hooked up with Edgar Cayce,
> reincarnation, and karma.
> But ready your wife for those of us who're decidedly _not_ Wordsworth
> admirers, Max! There're those, of whom I'm one, who feel that his sister
> Dorothy's poems and notes fed his best work. [Asidely: she insisted that
> poems' figures carry the poems' messages----that there be no explaining.]
>
> A rodent may have a go at gnawing apart your wife's appreciation for W, as
> well. oh dear oh dear
>
> all I can say is that it's the second rodent that gets the cheese.
>
> Best,
>
> Judy
>
> 2008/9/17 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> This wife of mine, o Judy, came into my life doing first-year university
>> Eng lit
>> part-time while theraping full-time.
>>
>> She loves poetry, selectively, Wordsworth above all.
>>
>> Why can't we all be Wordsworths...?
>>
>> Max
>>
>> Quoting Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>> > Tell your wife she should be referring you to the words "precocious",
>> > "formidably intellectual", "generous-to-a-fault", and "ready for the
>> beach".
>> > [She may need and enjoy a holiday from therapising other folks' speech]
>> >
>> > Judy
>> >
>> > 2008/9/17 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>> >
>> > > Yes, Jim, I run the risk of sounding offensive.
>> > >
>> > > It relates to my wife the speech therapist saying I show aspy symptoms,
>> and
>> > > that
>> > > it explains the twodimensionality of what I write; and her
>> disappointment
>> > > generally in contemporary poetry.
>>
>>
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