komninosa asks: > >i wonder are there any other spaces, metaphorically internal spaces, that >the listener/reader/interactor and poem collaborate to create? I'd say all the discussion about 'spacing', & the page as a field, as out of Olson etc in the US counts a lot. the physical spacing on the page a sign of spaced sounds & silences within the poem -- which remains important to me when I write/ as I write... 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 Shakespeare Drag yr mouldy old bones Up these stairs & tell me What you died of, I think I've got it Too. Sharon Thesen