>Why? > >Why >do >some >people >think >that >writing >a >sentence >one >line >at >a >time >makes >it >poetry? Maybe they've read Norman Mailer's attempts way back when? Or have no idea what a poem can become...? 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 How, but thru a monstrous 'specialism', the so-called authority of erstwhile 'professionals', have we come to leave _breath_ out of images and _images_ out of breath, anyhow? Roy Kiyooka