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Rumpus Book ClubHow sickness is, and isn’t, a prerequisite for poetry
“When I was in graduate school, I saw a posting on the bulletin board in my department indicating that poets were 50 percent more likely than those in other professions to experience mental illness. In the moment, it didn’t occur to me to wonder why it was necessary to post these survey results, where any number of poets were liable to see them. Instead, I thought they bore some important news: that poets were the genuine article. Because: nothing was more genuine than mental illness.”
“Analects on the Influence of Artaud” by Rick Moody in this month’s Believer.
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