Peering onto the racks of the verse...

Peering onto the racks of the verse section at your local megastore emporium is an increasingly depressing affair. Who are all these people? in what way is it a poet I've none heard of can have a retrospective brick just revealed on Norton? The Collected Limericks of Angus MacKilt, with Notes & Commentary according to Glyn Maxwell: I think I'll pass. And then the endles stream of matte-finish tomes of verse: this one's won a prize (the Olga Klumpff First volume Over 60 Pages Prize); this one's gotten a wink from Marjorie Perloff (the author of poems cites Cage, Benjamin, and Baudrillard in the title suite).