Well, I work for the publisher, Candice, but I think we can let this one time go <g>. The book is still available, & Shane has a new one coming out in the Spring. I think these poems bear out the comments about poet's tending to play with concepts no matter where they come from, philosophy, science, sociology, etc, & turn them into metaphor/metonymy etc. Personally, I don't find that at all troublesome. I am also happy to go along with Dom about poetry not HAVING to be communication/content: as how can I not loving so much Sound Poetry... Doug 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 Cinder of the lexical drift. Susan Howe