I suppose a national context for a book of poetry doesn't really loom for me unless the poet invokes a geography, in whatever way, and Robertson quite decidedly doesn't, not in The Men a book such as (Robertson's) The Office for Soft Architecture has site-specific reports on places in Vancouver, and walks in the city, so talking about Canada and "the fluid called money" as it dissolves place in Canada, would be something I'd def. want to talk about there I love this idea of becoming an office, becoming corporate. >http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/sometime-toward-end-of-previoushtml the link needs a dot in it: http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/sometime-toward-end-of-previous.html Edmund