he's right, you know. I was struck by the confidence of the work in "Hounds". confidence in the language in which she writes. I don't mean confidence in the sense of bluff push outward--for all I know, Alli Warren is as tentative as I am as regards her work in the world--but the intricacies, telescopings, primed logic, stunned honesty (stop me before I write a blurb), all these essences of her writing seem awake and aware in their life in the poem. I hope that doesn't sound farcical or gushy. I'm really impressed. I'm particularly taken by the concentration of her writing. a tough persistence there. ride on!