Alison: >what a poet >writes is more legitimately interesting than how he/she looks, or any >marketing wiles employed by those who publish his work, decisions which >ultimately have very little to do with the Author, real or feigned or >simply asserted I must be feeling awkward today because I cannot agree with the above - at least, not if I keep pushing myself. Why? Because how can we separate what we are reading with our vision - however constructed - of its author. Tim A. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%