If a person watched King Lear and then trotted across the street for a helping of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, they wouldn't be far off the experience gained by reading Deaborah Meadows' poetry. Grand themes inhabit literature and, by wrinkling them out of their shells and sticking them together, poetry can examine the nature of the themes rather than the body they were found in. Author of Representing Absence, published by Green Integer, Deborah Meadows teaches at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona.