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Andy asks: >What are the options? Any? Is poetry a lost cause within a >culture nurtured on visual stimuli . . . destined for other poets >only? Not necessarily 'other poets' but 'other readers' yes, & they too are few & far between, it seems, at least readers willing to take on the 'difficulties' poetry seems to manifest. On the other hand, thinking of Dom Fox's comments, I take a great deal of pleasure from a writing that engages allusion, commentary, parody etc, in forms often dismissed as 'merely' popular; indeed, it's in precisely those aspects that much of the delight in the best of these lies... Douglas Barbour Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm Reserved books. Reserved land. Reserved flight. And still property is theft. Phyllis Webb %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%