Rick:

Thanks.  I was so deeply influenced by Fenellosa's essay that I couldn't
even remember it.  How sad.

An infinite complex of interpenetrating processes without pause: to
capture THAT in verse.  That's EP.  Imagism? Vorticism?

If you haven't had a chance or the time to read it, I suggest Ronald
Johnson's "ARK".  You may not like it.... But you might love it.  Or, if
you have read it, any thoughts on the continuation of this enterprise by
Johnson?

Dirk

Richard Seddon wrote:

>Dirk:
>
>The essay by Fenellosa (edited by Pound) has an extensive analysis of verbs
>and nouns especially in the context of the Chinese ideograph.
>
>I'll give you one quote which, perhaps, is germane to our discussion.
>
>"A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exist in nature.  Things are only
>the terminal point, or rather the meeting points, of actions, cross-sections
>cut through actions, snapshots.  Neither can a pure verb, an abstract
>motion, be possible in nature.  The eye sees noun and verb as one; things in
>motion, motion in things, and so the Chinese conception tends to represent
>them." (page 10)
>
>Rick Seddon
>McIntosh, NM
>
>
>

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