Light and Dust: Larry Eigner One of the delights of surfing the Web (and if that isn't a scrambled metaphor I don't know what is) is that you never know what the next click will bring. Often what's beyond that click isn't much to write home about (so to speak), but then . . . Clicking on the URL for the Light and Dust Anthology -- http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lighthom.htm -- takes one to a large, baggy black-on-white webpage with plenty of links and a minimum of visual razzle-dazzle. The anthology features clusters of poems, book excerpts, whole books and chapbooks, visual poems, links to other web pages, and much else. Many of the names here harken back to the 60s, and Karl Young, whose bailiwick L&D is, has long been involved in the small-press world. Work by Ted Enslin is here, as is work by Rochelle Owens, Ronald Johnson (*The Book of the Green Man*), d.a. levy, Jackson Mac Low, Dick Higgins, et al. But the site isn't a museum. It also features work by many younger, currently active poets--Tod Thilleman and Barry Silesky, to mention a couple. A particular pleasure for me was coming upon the full text of Larry Eigner's *Air the Trees* (first published by Black Sparrow Press back in 1968 and long out of print). The drawings by Bobbie Creeley that accompanied Eigner's poems in the print edition are not here, but I'm sure it won't be long before such books are being archived online as they first appeared. A short poem like this one shows one of the features of Eigner's poems, their resistance to the tug of the left-hand margin:
		The poems move to the right in a way that I'm tempted to call a lazy drift, but there's nothing lazy about Eigner's work. The white of the page becomes an airy space surrounding the words, and the fields upon which the words are seen to play can be complex indeed, as in this one:
		I'm not always sure about the accuracy of the texts here (should "run-though" above be "run-through"?), and have no way right now to check against the print version, but still it's good to have online places that are providing homes for books that have vanished from the shelves of bookstores. - Halvard Johnson Home