Would you please let me know about "the Cantos transforms time ("the
fourth") into 2D space" ?
I also read a note in a book that Pound didn't like the "forth dimension",
what does that mean, and why ?
Thanks.
Hongguang
(ex-cosmologist)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Pearlman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Pound & Cubism
Nice point about the Cubist influence, Dirceu,
but isn't it a bit stretched? The Cubists simply
flattened space--laying out three dimensions
in two, whereas the Cantos transforms time
("the fourth") into 2D space. Would you call
Duchamps' "Nude Descending a Staircase"
an example of Cubist time transformed into
space? If so, then the Cubist analogy is
stronger.
==Dan
At 06:25 PM 07/01/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Maya,
> I think the only synchronicity in Pound's work
>was well explained by Professor Pearlman; concerning
>Chinese influence, there we go: Pound took the Chinese
>written character as Fenollosa put it, and assumed it
>was a very good example of how poesy works - or has to
>work. The technique of The Cantos, as well as the
>technique of many of his poems, is the development
>Pound gave to the previous cubist experience, not only
>from cubist painters, but from French poets like
>Cocteau, Apollinaire, Reverdy and others. You can find
>this opinion with arguments in Octavio Paz's Los Hijos
>del Limo. There's a very good book on the French
>influence called L'Influence du Symbolisme Français
>sur la Poésie Américaine (de 1910 a 1920), Paris,
>Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1929, written by
>René Taupin.
>
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