from the Montgomery Advisor:
Huntsville doc publishes poetry with medical touch (Dr. Scott Williams . . . no relation to WCW . . . is a family practitioner. Sound familiar?).
The short poem's title, "TMJ," refers to temporomandibular joint disorder, a painful jaw condition. But it's really about miscommunication, Williams said.
Williams said another poem, "Heart Defect," will appear in an upcoming issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
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An interesting essay on pleasure and wisdom in poetry over at Alfred Corn's place:
Aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetae.
(Poets wish either to instruct or to delight.)
—Horace, Epistles, “Ars poetica”
Delight is the chief if not the only end of poesy: instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poetry only instructs as it delights.
—John Dryden, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
[A poem] begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
—Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes”
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