A:  Well, I think that like other outstanding poets 
there is some mysterious conflux of imaginative 
energies that come together in a personality and 
make a Yeats, or John Berryman, or Shakespeare 
or a Marshall McLuhan. I think that question is a 
little more reasonable if you think of him as a 
social analyst or a communications analyst. There 
are lots of those. There aren’t so many people that 
have that brilliant capacity to flash into a verbal 
insight that is arresting. That’s what the poet 
does. And there aren’t many poets.


Q:  Did Marshall understand his own insights as well