Carroll Terrell's Cantos are very good too. They deserve more attention. One
might at first dismiss them as a pedant's defense of his master's voice, but
they are not. They stand as good writing on their own, having adopted a form
as appropriate for the long poem in the 20th Century.
 
Our own Carlo Parcelli has written some of what I think to be among the best
stuff I've read; it deserves a stronger statement than just that he has
written poetry influenced by Pound--we ALL here have. I doubt that there is
a significant percentage on this list who haven't turned a verse or hundred.
Carlo's work is (I think) shockingly good. IMHO, he is by no means the least
poet mentioned in this thread.
 
Ronald Johnson.
 
David Jones. [Initially I put T. S. Eliot, then removed him; I think that
Eliot and David Jones are more _sui generis_ than the others, but the
influence of EP on T.S. as a barometer at least seems pretty clear to me,
and I wonder if David Jones would have felt so confident in what he was
doing without the _Cantos'_ paradigm available?]
 
One need only look in any one or a few issues of _Agenda_ to see
EP's/_Cantos'_ influence in numerous people who are published in poetry
magazines.
 
I remember once hearing Gu Cheng, one of the Chinese "Misty School" poets,
say that he had read the _Cantos_ and that they had influenced him--though
as far as I know, Gu Cheng didn't produce a long poem of the sort in
question. I believe that one of the other Misty poets said the same, but I
don't recall who it was. [By the way, Gu Cheng's _Selected Poems_ are
available in paperback in an extraordinarily good English translation from
Renditions Paperbacks. Chinese poetry has seldom been translated into
English poetry (except by we-know-who), and Gu Cheng has been lucky in this:
his work has been translated so well in this book that it is still good
poetry in English. Perhaps a visionary poet such as Gu translates more
easily, but if that were so other Chinese poets wouldn't read like
orientalist postcards when translated into English. But this is a different
topic.]
 
> ----------
> From:         sylvester pollet
> Reply To:     Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> Sent:         Monday, January 17, 2000 3:11 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Thanks and query
>
>         I'd like to add David Gordon to that list. His work isn't
> completed, a projected 10 volume poem, but "Outward," "Repairs," and
> "Rest"
> are available from NPF. Parts of "Stem" have appeared in various journals,
> including my Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series (Number 8). I'll send a
> free sample to anyone who asks--send address backchannel. Sylvester
>
> At 2:23 PM -0500 1/17/00, Burt Hatlen wrote:
> >[log in to unmask],.Internet writes:
> >>Has anyone other than Pound written a good poem in a manner shaped by
> >>the
> >>Cantos?
> >
> >
> >>Richard Edwards
> >>_____________
> >
> >William Carlos Williams, H.D., Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, Basil
> >Bunting, Robert Duncan.  Perhaps that will do for starters. Tho others
> >come to mind: Tom McGrath. The recently-deceased Paul Metcalf, who
> >carried the collage method into a new space. Ken Irby.  Some
> >not-so-good poets too: whatever became of Archibald MacLeish?
> >
> >Burt Hatlen
>