Poetry and Class

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Originally Posted by SoNotHer

Poets and artists report from the edge, and often that's a pretty scary place to be. They are our sentinels. They go out into the emotional hinterlands and come back with some vision of what they saw and felt. They're never the same again nor are we.

What is more common than class is the presence of depression, bipolarity, ADD, and addiction. There is often a price to be paid for knowing and feeling too much.

this book includes a study of poets and suicide- very high numbers which get even higher when you include single car automobile accidents