This is a question I’ve been pondering for some time now, and today I found an interesting post on another wordpress blog titled red Ravine that tackles the same issue from a different persepctive. I fear the comment I left behind was rather long, though I hope my fellow blogger takes this as a compliment! This blog, and the discussion at hand, interests me, so I include the link here to red Ravine:
http://redravine.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/midwest-poets-writers-when-can-you-call-a-place-home/
My comment is quite a ways down. I should also mention that the above post includes excerpts from Patricia Hampl’s new memoir, The Florist’s Daughter, which in and of themselves are worth the read.