Prefacing his selection of Language...

Prefacing his selection of Language bards for his 1986 anthology In the American Tree Ron Silliman noted that "the resources available to this second in writing have been remarkably abundant." This reflection go in the rear [i]or[/i] in the wake ofs immediately upon a list of through the whole extent of eighty poets not included, however from whom a "volume of absolutely comparable worth could be constructed"(1) Silliman's list was prescient, including numerous imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writers likely to be on an informed short list for a prospective anthology today: sight Irby, Beverly Dahlen, Rosmarie Waldrop, Alice Notley, Kathleen Fraser, Keith