By Ron Kenner

All too often in today's media we sense that cause, effect, meaning and reason are dissipated in a postmodern cloud of manifest complexity. Our Poesque times seem to justify focus on Edgar Allen Poe as a way of articulating the problem of emptiness and insubstantiality in so many of our questionable "out of context" communications; especially in a kind of modern time warp that ignores past and future and in which the extremes fight over the heads of the innocents.