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Hi Mark, Carole tells me I wandered around in a daze for three weeks after returning from Vietnam--I think not being able to bargain for fruit at the grocery store was the greatest adjustment. Actually, it's a little frightening how easily I have fallen back into my usual habits & patterns. I have in fact been pretty much avoiding thinking much about my time in VN, waiting until things settle out in my mind before trying to think about it in any very organized way. And finally it may be like Hanoi traffic--impossible to actually think about, but a wonder to experience. This business about the overlap between schools of poetry does interest me. On another listserv recently someone posted, "I've written several language poems . . ." By which he meant he had written several poems with what he called "exploded syntax." Well, this is the perfect exemplar of what you were talking about. Still, though my own work comes out, I suppose, of the deep image & confessional strands of Am poetry, I have learned a lot by reading poets like Mac Low & Perelman. And though I am not adopting the style of these poets, something changes in the way I write, having read them. jd ====================== Joseph Duemer School of Liberal Arts, 5750 Clarkson University Potsdam NY 13699 315.268.3967 ======================