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Rumpus Book ClubStaying Alive as a Poet, Artist, Etc.
“Sometimes it seems as though poets, in particular, move in an endangered artistic world. Think Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Anne Sexton. And, last month, Rachel Wetzsteon, an accomplished poet who took her own life at age 42.”
Jacket Copy last week pondered the unfortunate tendency towards suicide, especially among poets, and why you are not allowed to kill yourself anymore.
January 22nd, 2010 at 6:29 am
Thanks for this. I followed the links till I got to Jennifer Michael Hecht’s original blog post. Having lost two poet friends to suicide in the past 14 months, this definitely hit home.