dumbfoundry

[...] Perhaps as a corrective and a cautionary, "The Bourgeois Poet" should be taught to the thousands taking M.F.A.'s in creative writing who wish to become poet-professors. As I said I tried it myself but found the work too hard. There’s a subdued but relentless hurly-burly in academia that swallows up discretionary time. It's like living with a slight backache, not fatal but enervating. Besides, academic salaries are falling behind and it's become questionable if poet-professors have truly achieved bourgeois status. Maybe lumpen bourgeois. [...]

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