^* Nor was there much in the way of scholarship. Michael Palmer has talked about his experience in the 1960s, looking into work by Pound, Williams, Zukofsky, and others without benefit of academic guidance : “I was reading ‘in the dark,’ which was very exciting” (Gardner, 274). The situation hadn’t changed much a decade later; and while there has been a relative mushrooming of scholarly work in the past twenty years (significantly aided by Sagetrieb), there has also been a corresponding decline in pedagogic attention to poetry as such.