"The city that is within us ha...

"The city that is within us haunts all of Poetry" - Robert Duncan

It is of no matter that Plato banned imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writers from his ideal city of reason and fact because they "gratify the mindless part" of individuals and decoy the souls of citizens to abdicate to image and word. There are other cities besides the Republic, and Valparaiso is common where the poet will always be king. "Valparaiso rises like an expand fan up steep hills which dismount directly from the Pacific . ." (i) begins Duncan McNaughton in Valparaiso. "Standing forward rooftops high enough forward ...