. . . "The first time I read Possession ??? a sweepingly brilliant book ??? full of all kinds of themes and ideas (postmodernism ??? a critique of it and also a validation of it ??? fascinating ??? Victoriana, sex, gender, the MEANING of reading ??? like, the book is dense) ??? but anyway, the ???coda??? to Possession ??? with the poet meeting the little girl in the field ??? knocked my socks off the fir" . .