Re: Inverted Forest

jason varsoke (jjv@caesun.msd.ray.com)
Wed, 04 Aug 1999 17:05:30 -0400 (EDT)

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.