HD is especially interesting in the obsession (ie focus) that keeps her at it. I think that engine is what keeps me interested in poetry in general. crafting column filler for the New Yorker or crunchy pastries for Poetry (Chicago) (okay I'm being snide) aint the business I want to be in. the presence of Greece in HD's work is instructive, just as Concord flora and fauna (including human) is with Thoreau. and of course Olson's Gloucester. and Zukofky. and Henry Gould disporting in Providence. it's the relationship of the work to the life. I guess the instruction of the individual poem pales compared to the work of the life involved. make sense? I guess it's not the made thing I'm taken by, but the making thing.