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Joseph skeptically wondered (and that was a great post, Joe, I agree with everything, you say, believe it or not!) if Lind would prove to have a genuine interest in the "intellectual history of Western prosody." Well, let's see, no? On the far chance that he chooses to engage in exchange with us pathetic academic "free-versers" (he is, after all, a "regular" on the Lehrer Newshour, Nightline, Fox, CNN, etc, not to mention on editorial board of three of the principal U.S. magazines, writing books about Vietnam as a good and "necessary war" (a book in which he makes the following statement: "There really were no young U.S. radicals during Vietnam outside of a few Jews,") and so on, the key will be to expand the impact of the conversation by bringing in some prominent poetry folks from beyond the list (from opposing sides)-- whether that can be done, I don't know, but if it can, then I think this could become a very interesting and fierce sort of Battle of Prosodiagrad. Lind is hardly the issue; it's the tendency of thought he represents that is worth confronting. Kent _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com