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In some ways that was a terrific idea, Pierre. I remember coming across the lack of the poem & thinking that it made sense (also knew it was due to cost), because in some ways the poem is for most readers of poetry, already there; we've read it, studied it perhaps, & by going to look it up one was perhaps lead to pay more attention than might otherwise be the case. But the poem can still hit, & perhaps there are still young readers (if there are any readers any more) who will find that poem & suddenly find that poetry isn't boring as it had been the few times a poem was taught in highschool.... Doug On 29-May-07, at 6:05 AM, Pierre Joris wrote: > It's more about the problem of publishing the poem: when Jerry > Rothenberg & I were putting together the first vol of POEMS FOR THE > MILLENNIUM, we had wanted to include a section of the Waste Land. The > price Faber & Faber had asked for 4 pages of the work of David Jones > was do ridiculously above what we could afford (like a huge chunk of > the budget for permissions for the whole book) that we didn't even > bother asking them for Eliot rights. So Jones & Eliot have tombeaux in > the book, but no poems. -- Pierre Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Of palaeopresence. The extra space around what is. Dennis Lee