[ConorMacNessa]

No they don't, Publius. Don't get me started on the garbage that passes for poetry today. As far as I'm concerned, poetry ended when Yeats and Eliot died.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Publius]

This Be the Verse is a brutal and vicious poem that is right on the mark, particularly for one from a thoroughly dysfunctional family.

On a different note, I'd recommend the CD "Samuel Barber: The Songs", in which he set a number of poems to music, and he showed fine taste in his selections. It features Cheryl Studer and Thomas Hampson in the singing honors. Barber's setting of Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach", with Hampson backed by the Emerson Quartet, is absolutely haunting. We did it in concert in Seattle in 2003.