Poetry. ETRUSCAN READER VIII features work by three poets: Tina Darragh, Douglas Oliver,and Randolph Healy. Washington DC poet Tina Darragh's fast, witty lines are interspersed with the collage FAST, FAST in syntax both verbal and visual. Douglas Oliver's THE ARRONDISSEMENTS traces geographical and social textures across the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of Paris. This volume also includes Irish poet Randolph Healy's most extensive gathering of work to date, featuring the long poem Arbor Vitae, an epic of science and myth in the tradition of BRIGGFLATTS: But there were some good ideas knocking around,/ then, before the first word was spoken./ History.