[Tony Barnstone]

Did I misread your comments, Rick? "It's one of those poems that I read sometimes that make me feel the person that wrote it, as a poet, has taken on an assignment from a daily experience." Or maybe your issue is with execution more than content & I misconstrued, and if so, sorry!

[Rick Mullin]

Well, that is one of my problems. It has nothing to do with hating the use of form to depict beach partying. I really enjoyed Wilson's translation of the Iliad, for example.