One phrase from Argura - imploded strophe dispersed canzone - sets an internalized choral impulse alongside a diffuse songlike one, the dispersed canzone still pledged to argument. This criss-cross defines a compositional zone which, though contemporary, does not grant automatic this finding may be the controlling one behind Argura. The work included falls on either side of Peck's Poems and Translations of Hi-Lo, published by Carcanet in 1991.