Word: blinderman
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...Help. Poetry always offers clues to the mind of its creator, but those clues are not often as explicit as the suicidal lines of a 15-year-old boy whose fate became known to English Professor Abraham Blinder-man of the State University of New York. Blinderman thinks that the boy's teacher should have recognized his deep distress, and he believes that if the youngster had been in poetry therapy, his eloquent poem (see box) would have been understood as a cry for help. In that case, psychiatric treatment might have saved...
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