[lit-ideas] Re: Poetry and Madness

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:56:52 -0700

Also in Finlay's book is the tale of poet Su Dongpo's experiments with making ink from wine lees. Apparently at the end of a particularly arduous or vini-ous experiment, he nearly burned down his house, which caused him to wonder whether soot from burned poet's homes might be a really good ink ingredient.

David Ritchie
who's tight with advice on how to write
and sure he saw muses at the zoo once
in Portland, Oregon

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