It's wonderful that this list suddenly leapt alive. It's equally wonderful that "eastern" issues prompted the leaping. About Modernism and Orientalism in general, I've been reading Robert Kern's book on the subject (*Modernism, Orientalism, and the American Poem* it's cleverly titled.) I find it valuable because Kern's reading sets up a way for incorporating non-Buddhist, non-Eastern-minded writers (like Cummings or Stevens for instance) into a "Zen-centric" perspective (to coin a phrase). I've been thinking about some products of modern poetry as being kinds of advertisements before the fact for an American assimilation/appropriation/utilization of the so-called wisdom of the east. (Note please that Kern's book is mainly about Emerson, some 19th-cen. German philologists, Otto Jespersen, Fenollosa, Pound, and ultimately, Snyder. It doesn't speak specifically to Cummings or Stevens, even if I implied that it did. It's just helpful for locating modern American poetic practice in a history of western engagements with, primarily, the Chinese language.) Thanks for writing! -Jon Weidler Loyola University