On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 Squeila@aol.com wrote: > In Inverted Forest why does Robert Waner think Raymond Ford is psychotic. He > says that theres hardly a line of verse in Ford's work, it's all poetry, and > that he writes under the pressure of a "dead weight beauty," and that he is > the most "gigantic psychotic" that Corrine will ever know. In the end Ford > did turn out to be the one with the oedipus complex, but what did Waner mean? maybe he was referencing Plato: all the poets are crazy.