Like ''Contemplations'' (1985) and ''Supercontemplations'' (1993), this volume of poetic word art, which bears the title ''Ultracontemplations'', requires only to be contemplated, since it is composed of patterned upper-case word entities which, when they are not in mirror reverse perspective, are all different and all equally suggestive of a variety of insights which arguably owe more to art than to poetry. As does the cover, which features one of John O''Loughlin''s early abstract paintings, dating from 1999.
