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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