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This was sent some time ago to a previous incarnation of the poetry-etc list, but I'm resending it now because I believe most of the contributors to the current discussion of poetry and violence weren't on the list then. One distinguished and very politically involved poet (who so far as I know doesn't follow the poetry-etc list) said that while he approved the poem, in no small part because the vividness of the violence drove home how horrible it was, he also felt there was an uncomfortable moral risk that such vividness would backfire by unintentionally catering to the general human fascination with violence. He admitted that he himself had never solved the problem of how to portray violence convincingly without seeming to celebrate it at least by subtext, and I'm not sure if I have either. But the poem has been generally well received. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%