a professional artist after an LSD high, illus- trates how powerfully such drugs can affect one's sense of space and proportion.
"How Hallucinogenic Drugs Work" Barry L.
Hallucinations Jacobs, in American Scientist (July-Aug. 1987), 345 Whitney Ave., New Haven, Conn. 06511.
"Turn on, tune in, drop out." That was the motto of one-time Harvard lecturer (and former hippie) Timothy Leary, who advocated the use of hallucinogenic drugs (e.g., LSD) during the 1960s to "expand"...
Robert Pinsky,The Poet's Task in Critical Inquiry (Spring 1987), 5801 Ellis Ave., Chicago, Dl. 60637.
Many contemporary poets, says Pinsky, an English professor at the Uni-versity of California, Berkeley, suffer from a particularly modem disease- "Poetry Gloom." Faced with sparse and diminishing audiences for their work, poets have "mysterious disaffections" and "querulous doubts" about the validity of their art. To whom, Pinsky asks, should poets be responsi- ble?...