Well, I've dug ditches, harvested peas, unloaded fishing boats, worked for a film company AND taught, and I'd say that you've got a mighty romantic idea of working. You've also got a strange notion of the delicacy of the imagination. By your reasoning, poets should also not write literary criticism, which would leave that field bereft of its best practitioners. I'd say that poetry and poetics are tough enough even to overcome the teaching profession. This idea that we're all so precious we can't stand thinking about our art is just nuts. Forgive my bluntness.
[This message has been edited by David Mason (edited January 11, 2002).]
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