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What? Ezra hath not "the skill to forge Achaia"? Nonsense. Graves was just
jealous. If one reads The Cantos through the mythopoetic eyes, say of an
Athena, one must conclude that Osama bin Laden could only be lurking in
Mirkwood with Black Bart and the other guys who cheat at poker.. But in the
end it is not a "self-sufficient work of art". It needs a bookshelf to hold
it up. But then "Huck Finn" does too.
    The question which remains is, "O Bright Apollo" to whom does The Ezra
Pound "Tin Wreath" Award go this year? We know who Time selected.

Chas

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>From: "Davis, Alex" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Mr. Davis Once Again
>Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2002, 12:56 AM
>

> Mr Davis writes: "I am puzzled by the misunderstanding produced by my remark
>
> "self-sufficient work of art." In the context of the paragraph it appeared
> in, I believe it is clear. The Cantos are not self-sufficient because they
> require the aid of other books to understand."
>
> 1:  Well there goes Virgil and Dante!
> 2: Hmm: Even a rudimentary understanding of intertextuality would lead one
> to grasp the fact that no text is sufficient unto itself.  A poem is
> meaningful through a foreknowledge of the genre of poetry, an epic through a
> preunderstanding of what "epic" signifies, and thus all texts are parasitic
> upon one another, to a certain extent. Mallarme dreamed of Mr Davis's Le
> Livre--but neither he nor any other poet has actually written it.
>         Best,
>         Alex Davis