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On the matter of "voice", Alison said that poets should be like actors-- "training the voice to become as flexible and expressive an instrument as possible." Thinking of poetry in the tropic light of theatre is very interesting, I think, and one can go in different directions with it. One thing that occurs to me right off, in resposne to Alison's remark, is that the vast majority of poets today, even those who have trained their voices to become supple and flexible instruments, insist on "playing themselves." And it's this scripted role (ah, the real and arrased script of ideology, as Dana Gioia said-- no, just kidding) that underwrites the "common-sense" conflation of "voice" with normative, legal poetic identity. Oh, and David: Thank you again! My god, I meant to type "aphroditied"! I am not a Spanish hermaphrodite poet! I love you, you aviary of long-bills, you, Kent _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com