Mr. Lake's paternalistic view of the sciences is touching.

A new offering from Mr. Lake below.


                                           Poetry

                                    (March 2002)



                           Copyright (c) 2002 First Things 121 March 2002): 20.

              End of the Road

              When all roads led to Rome,
              unRoman ways
              made inroads
              into Rome
              so Rome’s ways changed.
              Now when

              strangers go
              to Rome,
              to do what Romans do,
              neither they
              nor Romans know
              what Romans do, to do,

              some even deeming
              it unRoman
              they once knew.

              —Paul Lake

Where's my Cantos?!! Antidote!! Antidote!!    CP



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> Dear Pound List members,
>
> I would like to draw your attention to the following articles by Paul Lake
> concerning the analogies between science and free verse (in which Modernism
> and Ezra Pound figure prominently).
>
> "The Shape of Poetry": http://www.cprw.com/Lake/ShapeofPoetry.htm
>
> "Disorderly Orders": http://www.cprw.com/Lake/orders.htm
>
> In my opinion, Mr. Lake has provided some of the most acute analysis on the
> degeneracy of contemporary poetry and its causes.
>
> Regards,
> Garrick Davis
> editor
> Contemporary Poetry Review
> (www.cprw.com)