Poetry's power is contained and effective, and best when its conciseness reveals entirely the subject's values. A few carefully phrased words relate sometimes much more than a plethora of descriptive paragraphs, dialogue or physical spectacle. Well written poetry engages the reader to a shared emotion, thought, place, imagination or experience, if briefly, then qualitatively. Communications in the 21st Century electronic culture portends the brevity, shock, silliness or agenda and sales-intentions of its creator and can disallow the recipient an experience of shared expression. When novelists...