This issue includes da levy's poem "Bourgeoisie Chant." Duane Locke contributes an essay, "The Avante-Garde and Poetry" in which he comments on Concrete Poetry. He states that "Concrete Poetry, in divorcing language from its referential base, creates a vehicle capable only of divorcing a very limited and not very worthwhile experience. Words are not colors or musical sounds, and have an extremely limited force when used for spatial and sound effects per se. Dave Cunliffe of Poetmeat reports that concrete poetry is speading over England, and I am certain that a group of unreflective and unfeeling poets will soon vociferously distribute it over America." Note: Duane Locke has a Doctor of Philosophy degree, specializing in poetry from Donne to Marvell. During his academic career at a less-than-mediocre university (Tampa) which he considers a waste of his life he taught varied courses in poetry from Homer to Michael Palmer. He has had over 5,000 poems published as of August 2005, 5,561. He has also had over 264 photos published, mainly photos of Tampa trash and Lakeland's mystic flowers. Has had a number of one man art shows and exhibitions of his paintings throughout Florida. Charles Bukowski contributed an autobiographical essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.