dissatisfying" (31). Far from it--the dissatisfaction of the narrator is essential to the Report's accuracy. n this Romantic pilgrimmage Norris is the latest in a long tradition of artists and writers that includes Gaugin, Byron, Melville, and even Orwell. That he fails to find the paradise he is seeking should surprise no one, least of all Norris, who knows all along that nowhere is beyond the reach of airplanes or satellite television. Norris makes it clear in a number of poems that he is searching in vain for the mythical "Garden." In "Romance at Anchor in a Landscape of Dream," (14) he says "I return/to this paradise still dreaming of completion,/knowing the garden a lie, wholeness a lie,/yet wanting them." Norris is in the absurd position of searching for innocence among peoples who have been on the front line of nuclear arms testing. Norris--like all of us--is trapped between dream and reality. He illustrates this dilemma in "Marquesan Dreams" (36), the book's finest poem: "It is the Garden of Eden," he tells us, and except for the Typee's eccentric habits of cannibalism and keeping the skulls of departed ancestors they are as innocent as Adam and Eve before the Fall ...................................... He walked out of the Garden (no, ran) and then, in later life, longed for return,