One thing that intrigued me about this list of 'definitions' is that a whole bunch of the poets I most admire aren't there, apparently were too busy just writing the stuff to bother trying to 'define' it.... Doug On 20-May-08, at 7:47 AM, Andrew Burke wrote: > More to read at > http://www.poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_o'driscoll.php > > Andrew Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much contemplation to our western fact: to Rise, Decline, Fall, to futility and larks, to the bright crustaceans of the oversky. Phyllis Webb