Its impulse is the deepening of recognitions through language, in a time of ignorance and mutilation.Ms. Rich has written: "For a poet...there is this primary labor with words. But I have the notion that how you live your life has something to do with it—that morality, for a poet, is a refusal of blinders, of traditional consolations, a courage to be alone, or wounded....A willingness to step out into the fog, to take paths which may lead nowhere. Certainty, predictability, are the first supports that have to go. I see the poetry of things as standing in resistance to brute mechanistic force, the charge of the rhinoceros with its head down. To discover—literally—this poetry and re-create it in language is a poet's essential action."

    Asbury has discovered a drug which changes ordinary men into homosexuals. But is the effect permanent? Is there an antidote? And what would happen if he slipped his drug into water supplies all over the world? Since Asbury was a practical man, he decided to try it and find out.