Hi John,
I’m not a psychiatrist, so I won’t argue the point. I'm a layman who does community work with people with psychiatric challenges, and I have real sympathy for the struggles. I think Lowell can write movingly of them. He concludes the vivid and harrowing “
Eye and Tooth” with:
I am tired. Everyone’s tired of my turmoil. Reading the poem, you understand, you feel it. And in “Home After Three Months Away”, he concludes:
I keep no rank or station / Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small.
I don’t mean to derail Sam’s thread, but we tip our hats regularly and rightly to Wilbur, and Lowell was also a mind, a talent.
Anyway, the vid really is wonderful.