What we learn

Post date: Feb 4, 2012 11:47:25 AM

When in high school I participated in the poetry reading club. A poem by Kenneth Rexroth had a biographical note referring to this poet as an iconoclast of great learning. The definition I found that year, 1967, was 'self taught'. Now I find the definition to be something I wasn't aware of yet, (i.e. iconoclast |īˈkänəˌklast|

noun1 a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.2 a destroyer of images used in religious worship, in particular• historical a supporter of the 8th- and 9th-century movement in the Byzantine Church that sought to abolish the veneration of icons and other religious images.• historical a Puritan of the 16th or 17th century.).

Interesting too that the poetry club was the way I began to use the word - muses ole'